Outline 4D (formerly known as Storyview 2.0)

Posted by CRC
Sep 4, 2014 at 01:05 PM

>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.

I’d take a look at this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ostorybook/

It was a commercial product but has gone open source. It appears to be designed for exactly what you want to accomplish.