I love Scrivener’s tools for visualizing the structure of a story in terms of chapters and scenes. However, an equally useful way to understand a story is in terms of chronology in actual time. For complex stories with multiple narrative threads, I still find myself sketching out timelines using various other tools.
With that said, I’d like to throw out the idea of integrating timeline support into Scrivener. Every document could have a timestamp or a time range in its metadata. In addition to the scrivenings/corkboard/outliner views, there could be a fourth view for timelines that would lay out notecards in a calendar view. Multiple timelines could appear in parallel, filtered by tags, labels, etc. This would allow users to visualize how multiple narrative threads interact in time.
Just an idea!