Aeon Timeline is the type of Mac programs that's perfect for writers, project managers, and legal practitioners. With this tool's help, you can create, manage, and analyze complex ideas, write or edit your story, study your legal cases, and so much more.
You have access to a comprehensive help manual, a user-friendly interface, and plenty of project templates to choose from. In addition, the utility provides you with a couple of sample projects which you can preview and use as an inspiration when building your own stories or legal case analysis.
Aeon Timeline lets you choose between various editing options and view modes. You can easily add events or entities to your project and use the integrated search tool to find certain ideas from your timeline.
My only problem is with the project export feature. To be more exact, it supports a small number of output formats and not even the ones that are listed as compatible don't get to be used. In my testing, I tried to export the project to the PDF format. Instead, the utility exported a PNG file to the selected destination folder.
Still, it's worth giving Aeon Timeline a try if the aforementioned aspect means nothing to you. It provides you with many useful features and is very simple to handle.
v1.1 [Jun 5, 2013]
- Bug fixes and speed improvements
- Resolved crash affecting some OS X 10.6 users
-- New in Version 1.1 --
External Links and Image Display:
- Add links to files stored externally from the timeline.
- Display images directly on the timeline.
- Open any linked file from directly inside Aeon Timeline using QuickLook or their default application.
New Timeline Styles:
- Year-only calendars that can span millions of years.
- Relative timelines such as “Monday, Week 5″ or “Day 4, 11:00am”.
- Time-only formats such as "-23:00:00" and "+01:24:00"
Event Precision and Duration:
- Set precision (year-only, month + year, full date, or date + time) for each event individually
- Option to directly enter event durations instead of end dates
Printing and Exporting:
- Improved image exporting that saves exactly what is on the screen
- Added printing functionality
Completed Event Property:
- To assist with project management tasks, events can now be marked as “completed”.
- Use the filter to show only completed or uncompleted events.
Measure time between events:
- Hold down Alt+Shift while click-dragging between events to measure the time between them.
A complete change list can be viewed here: http://www.scribblecode.com/version_1_1.html
Video tutorials demonstrating how to use the new features are here:
http://www.scribblecode.com/videos.html
