Outline 4D (formerly known as Storyview 2.0)

Posted by Hugh
Sep 4, 2014 at 10:09 AM

drm vorlock wrote:

>I want to create a timeline/eventline to help plot a novel which is not
>told in chronological order. I’m looking to create a purely
>chronological eventline, as well as an a-chronological ‘throughline’
>with the scenes in the order in which the story unfolds, correlated with
>parallel eventlines showing ‘who-knows-what-when’ for several
>characters. I may end up using paper and markers, but I’d like to find
>some software which would allow me to change things around freely
>without facing the tedium of constant redrawing.
> >The event tracker of Outliner-4D looks like it might do I want, but I’m
>put off by the software’s premium price combined with its apparent
>abandonment and lack of mantenace updates. Also a 5 day trial for O4D
>seems unecessisarily parsimonious—certainly not much time to get
>comfortable with the ins and outs of the program or to determine if it
>is going to crash frequently on my win7/64 and/or be a resourse hog.
> >Unfortunately, searching “event tracking software” (for novelists)
>yields slim pickings, so I’m asking for any suggestions before I
>download the O4D trial.

Have you tried Aeon Timeline (the only time-liner that I know of that’s designed expressly for writers)? http://www.scribblecode.com