Aeon timeline 312/27/2022 ![]() That interesting garden timeline, for example. Software that does all the wonderful things that Aeon or Skim or Whoseitswhat does. I suggest it’s a better investment to learn to use DEVONthink to work with the software you already have or can get. If you build a home do you need to become an architect, a carpenter, a plumber? No, you just need to learn how to work with the trades. DEVONthink excels at tracking, relating, and organizing your data – but it doesn’t excel at being Excel. ![]() The good news is that DEVONthink is a good citizen of the OS X universe and works very well and cooperatively with dozens of applications. Add the other complex features that get requested, and you can see where this is going – it’s neither feasible nor a good investment for the company. Today for example, there’s a request in another thread that DEVONthink mimic Skim’s features for PDF annotation, and there’s the feature request for a timeline (perhaps like Aeon’s).Ĭonsider, however, if the DEVONthink developers (there’s not an army, there’s a handful) were to write those features then they would have to spend as much time collectively at that work as the three development teams of DEVONthink + Skim + Aeon. The suggestions that don’t usually entail an enormous amount of work for a niche feature that would not appeal to a wide audience, or they ask that DEVONthink mimic sophisticated software that already exists. Many of them get implemented in this product. Readers of the forum generously suggest feature changes and requests, and that is a good thing. I’ve also earned my living in information technology for a long time and have developed a sense of the art of the possible. It’s all a huge process, but it now feels like building something sharp, tight and tangible, instead of looking at it through cloudy glasses.I am not one of the developers here or an employee, but I have been around here for a while and have some idea of what DEVONthink is and isn’t. Once I’m happy with the bones of my story, I will transition over to Scrivener and start writing the scenes, and getting the book ready for another pass from The Editor. I’m going to work almost exclusively in Timeline in order to get the structure set. But it’s important to get this all nailed down and codified. I have a lot of this up in my head, based on the Editor feedback, etc. So what I’m doing with Timeline, is restructuring the content I already have, and inserting new scenes and chapters, in order to tell a better story. Part 2 was edited and I have copious notes from my awesome editor. Now that I’ve gotten these technical aspects put to bed, I can shift into a more creative mindset and hopefully carve out some time to throw on the headphones and make some magic! A Note on the Magic: I say all this to say that I don’t feel as if I was avoiding the creative process, but merely using the time I had to do what I was mentally capable of doing. I have the luxury of having children, which affords me very little creative time, but quite a lot of time where they might be running around, watching TV and being distracting enough where I can setup these two apps without having to use a lot of creative brain-power. It’s important to spend as little time on this as possible, so that it doesn’t take away from your creative time. ![]() If you put in the work, you’ll get a lot out of it. I’ll probably post a more in-depth video on this at some point but there’s a great deal of customisation that can go into making your timelines specific to your story. After something of a learning curve when it comes to syncing data between the two programs, I think I’m at a point where I can actually start working with both programs creatively. I’ve been using Aeon Timeline 3 in conjunction with Scrivener. ![]()
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