Release Notes

Aeon Timeline version 3.4.16 has been released with the following fixes:

• Fixed an issue when purchasing updates through the app using third party payment platforms such as PayPal
• View settings such as Subway threads, Relationship View columns and timeline display options can now be saved as soon as the change is made (they were previously only saved after a subsequent timeline edit)
• Fixed bug in position of horizontal drop line indicating where an item will be moved to when dragging between groups in the timeline
• Fixed bug where incorrect relationship options could be shown in the edit menus for inverse relationships

Aeon Timeline version 3.4.14 has been released with the following fixes:

• Fixed a Windows bug where File > New and File > Open may open files within an existing window instead of a new window
• Fixed issue where purchasing via PayPal, Amazon and Google Pay could hang indefinitely on Windows
• Fixed bug where timeline might crash when editing dates using the new edit menu
• Minor updates to starting template files

Templates

• New templates have been added for writing, project management, legal cases, and history. All templates now come with example content to help you pick which template best suits your project.
• We’ve added a new template browser. When creating a new timeline, you can now flip through and preview the different templates. You can also choose whether to include example content in your new timeline.

Easier Editing

• With the new edit menus, you can now edit items in place without having to open the Inspector. You can also duplicate items, or create items before or after the selected item.
• When assigning related items in the Inspector and the spreadsheet, you can now create new items in place.
• When selecting multiple rows or cells in the spreadsheet, selecting from a dropdown will apply to the whole selection. For example, if you select three rows and change the color in one of the rows, it will update the color for all three items. Or if you add a relationship, it will add it for all three items.
• You can now right-click on parent items or timeline group headings to expand or collapse all.
• You can now enter just a number when editing an item’s duration. For example, if an item has a duration of 6 months and you enter “3”, its duration will be updated to “3 months”.

Timeline View

• You can now show properties, tags, and links directly on your timeline. This can be set from the view footer’s Item Display panel.
• Timelines can now be grouped by color or item type. This can be set from the view footer’s Groups panel.
• Timeline groups are now collapsible. They will also show rollups of the items they contain when collapsed.
• Items can now be created directly within a timeline group by double-clicking. Items can also be dragged between timeline groups to change colours or add relationships, depending on the group type.
• Color and relationship group headers can be double-clicked to be renamed.
• If one item starts right after another ends, it can now be positioned on the same line in timeline view instead of cascading downwards. This will only happen for non-zero duration items where it wouldn’t result in overlapping text.
• When the timeline’s timescale is zoomed to show one-month intervals, the minor ticks will now indicate the start of each week.
• When creating an item in timeline view, it will now snap to the grid lines.
• When scrolling to an event in the timeline, it now scrolls to the start of the event rather than the middle.

Mindmap View

• Multiple relationship labels will now be shown if two items are related in multiple ways.

Inspector

• The inspector now has collapsible panels rather than tabs. When panels are collapsed, a brief summary is shown if it has data set, so you can find and edit your data more easily.
• The inspector is no longer limited to a third of the screen in width, and can be as wide as you like.

Item Panels

• The item type panels now have an option to show a quick access button for each row (accessible via the slider button at the top of the panel). The options are:
  • Filter View: Show a count of all related items in the active view. Clicking this button will filter the active view.
  • Find in View: Clicking this button will scroll to the item in the active view. If the item isn’t present in the active view but is able to be added, a button to add the item to the view will be shown instead.
• Item types can now be customized directly within their panels.
• The sidebar now has options to choose which item types to show.

Visual and Interface

• The view footer buttons now have labels.
• Parent and non-parent items in spreadsheet and relationship views now have consistent indentation.
• Dates and durations now wrap in the inspector and in spreadsheet view, so they don’t get cut off.
• The sidebar now has an option to show colored icons for the item type buttons, and options to show or hide the sync, dependency, calendar marker, and tutorial panels.
• When changing an item’s type, the app will now list any fields that will become unavailable.
• The calendar picker now lets you choose how specific to be (hours, minutes, or seconds) when setting the time.

Settings

• The advanced item, relationship, and property settings have been moved into the main settings window to make them easier to access.
• Item types can now be duplicated.
• When duplicating or creating a new item type, a matching relationship of the same name will also be created.

iOS

• Item labels can now be edited in place by using the new edit menus.
• On iPad, the view footers are now shown so you can access the same view settings as the desktop app. On iPhone, there is now an option to show the view footers for timeline and narrative views.
• Dropdowns in the inspector and app settings will now open in place, and will no longer move you to a new screen each time.

Bug Fixes

• When copying and pasting parent and child items together in narrative view, they will now keep their nesting.
• Fixed a bug where the calendar picker would be cut off when showing 6+ rows.
• Fixed a bug where the app could hang when adding links.
• Fixed a bug where relationships would show in the wrong order when selecting columns in spreadsheet view.
• Fixed a bug where relationships would show in the wrong order when adding relationships in relationship view.
• Fixed a bug where children could be moved twice when selecting and dragging parent and child items together in timeline view.
• When deleting an item type, fixed a bug where items could be incorrectly deleted instead of converted to a different type.
• Fixed a bug where undone text could flash back when repeatedly clicking in and out of the label field.
• Fixed a bug where deleting an item used in the current filter wouldn’t update the filter.
• When sorting by start date, if multiple items have the same start date or no date at all, items will now fall back to being sorted by manual order. The same will happen when sorted by color if multiple items share the same color.
• Fixed bug that prevented editing leap years properly (e.g. when setting up the Julian calendar).

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Aeon Timeline version 3.3.18 has been released with the following fixes:

• Fixed a bug where events without a duration would be set to 1 second, minute, or hour after using the calendar picker
• Modified behaviour of Sidebar tooltips to hide after being clicked
• Fixed a bug where durations wouldn't print in spreadsheet view
• Modified Windows auto-update process to resolve future update issues

Aeon Timeline version 3.3.18 has been released with the following fixes:

Constraints Panel:

• Violated constraints and dependencies now show at the top of the list.

CSV Import and Export:

• The order of exported items will now match the order you set in the app.
• When exporting relationships or properties with multiple values, each value will now go on a new line. For example, when an event is related to many different characters, or when an item has multiple links.
• When importing a CSV, you can now set the internal delimiter within such fields to be a new line instead of a comma. This is to make it easier to import values that contain commas, such as a name like “Smith, John”.
• Fixed an issue where importing multiple items with the same name would sometimes create new items instead of updating existing ones.
• [Remove the translation string one, it’s minor and no one needs to know the app has translation capabilities because it isn’t launched]

Search and Replace:

• Searching will now also search item IDs (e.g. EV1).
• Search and Replace will now also match punctuation and special characters such as |, (, ), etc.
• Search and Replace will now allow replacing text with an empty value to delete text

Bug Fixes:

• Fix crash in Filter Panel that can occur when the narrative is disabled
• Fix issue where changing date format from relative to absolute may not immediately update the timeline view correctly
• Fixed issue where calendar markers may render in incorrect location during scrolling

Aeon Timeline version 3.3.12 has been released with the following fixes:

Printing & Exporting

• Fixed a printing bug that could insert extra empty lines in some event descriptions
• Add new columns to exported CSV files for related item labels (separate from compact display)
• Fixed an issue where printing and exported images may cutoff the edge of expanded parent events

Syncing

• Fixed a bug that could create duplicate copies of tags
• Fixed a bug where brand new Scrivener labels could not sync with colors correctly
• Fixed a bug where duplicate events could be created when syncing updated version 2 files for the first time
• Fixed a bug where narrative items could be moved into the wrong order

Other

• Fixed a bug where valid relationships could be deleted when deleting other relationships while the narrative was enabled and empty
• Fixed issue where Mac app sometimes doesn't restart with latest release automatically
• Fixed an issue opening a file exported as a "TSF"
• Remove "add to narrative" options from right-click menu when narrative is disabled
• Fixed an issue where the entity list takes keyboard focus unexpectedly
• Fixed display bug where newline characters were not shown in Spreadsheet View
• Fixed bug that affected selecting multiple items in Relationship View
• Fixed bug where not all selected items were highlighted in Search Panel

Added new sample templates to help you get started more easily!

Aeon Timeline version 3.3.8 has been released with the following fixes:

Calendar Markers

• Fixed an issue with drag and drop of calendar markers
• Fixed an issue with short calendar markers being shown behind longer ones

CSV Import

• Fixed CSV export for some files containing emojis and other non-latin characters

Other

• Fixed an issue that made it difficult to resize narrow table columns
• Fixed an issue where users could remove the gutter column in spre
• Fixed minor pixel-alignment issues in timeline display and layout calculations
• Fixed an issue displaying item names with colons
• Fixed an issue with deleting links shared between multiple items

One-Click Universal Sorting

• We’ve unified how entities are sorted across the app, to help with everything from organizing characters, to spotting duplicates while entering data from multiple sources.
• You can now drag and drop calendar markers to set their order, or choose to automatically sort them by label, color, or date.
• Subway View Track Order
• When choosing to show intersections in Subway view, you can now choose between having the app arrange tracks automatically to minimise crossovers (as it previously always did), or by your set sort order.

Timeline View

• The Timeline View header now shows a short message when there are items that aren’t shown on the timeline due to not having dates set.

Calendar Picker

• The calendar picker now greys out dates that cannot be selected. For example, if you are setting an event’s end date, dates before the event starts will be greyed out.

Entity panels

• The entity panel add rows now have dropdowns to select to create parent item types, such as Character Groups in the Characters panel. This replaces the Create dropdown at the top of the panel.
• The sidebar + button will now allow you to create items of types that aren’t shown by themselves in the sidebar, but that are parents of types that are. For example, if you have a Character Group type that is hidden from the sidebar but Characters are shown, you can now use the + button to create a character group in the characters panel.

Windows

• Fixed an issue where some Windows users were asked to login to the app too frequently.
• Added additional logging to diagnose auto-update issues for affected Windows users.

3.2.22 has been released with the following fixes:

Timeline View

• Fixed a bug where dependency lines would sometimes not show in Timeline View when scrolling away from the related item.

Inspector

• Fixed a bug where time measurements/character ages would always show “from start” rather than “since end” when applicable.

Printing and Image Export

• Fixed a bug where Subway View’s date headers weren’t printed.
• Fixed a bug where some Subway View lines wouldn’t get printed if they were only partially on the page.
• Fixed a bug where date text and compact displays would print and export too light on the Light and Mellow themes.
• Fixed a bug where timeline ticks would export to light on the High Contrast themes.
• Fixed a bug where compact displays would export as black text on a black background on the High Contrast Light theme.

Copy and Paste

• Fixed a bug where date constraints that depend on other items wouldn’t copy correctly when copying and pasting the related items.

MacOS

• Fixed a bug where the work view headers and toolbars could shift and become mispositioned on MacOS Sonoma.
• Fixed a bug where Cmd + Delete wouldn’t delete an item in Spreadsheet and Outline views when selecting a whole row.

Upgrading from Version 2

• Fixed a bug where files would fail to upgrade if they had an event set at 1AD.