Release Notes

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.

We have just released version 3.2.20, which includes the following bug fixes:

• Fixes an issue where items wouldn’t be shown in Timeline View if their parents weren’t also shown.
• Fixes an issue where inverse relationships wouldn’t be shown in the inspector or in item cards.
• Fixes an issue where the inspector or Timeline View could crash on MacOS High Sierra.
• Fixes an issue where related items would not be included when exporting to CSV if their labels contained non-latin characters.

We have just released version 3.2.18, which includes the following bug fixes:

• Fixes an issue calculating non-English initials and exporting to CSV.
• Fixes strikethrough not showing when printing completed items.
• Improves the error message shown when a Scrivener folder that is being synced is deleted in Scrivener.
• Fixes a crash when syncing with Ulysses if a synced folder is marked as ignored in Ulysses.

Large Datasets

• The app can now handle several thousand items with minimal lag, so you can work with larger timelines more efficiently.

Data Clarity

• To make items more recognisable and meaningful, we’ve combined an item’s color with its type icon into a single coloured icon. E.g. Green item color + person type icon = green person icon.
• To help you keep track of your data, each view’s header now displays a count of the number of items in the view, as well as a count of the items that are being filtered out.

Easier Editing

• To maximise your working space, the inspector will now be automatically hidden when no item is selected on Mac and Windows. You can customise this behaviour from the right panel icon at the top right of the screen.
• We’ve added quick-entry rows to the entity lists and the mobile app lists for faster data entry.
• To make it easier to keep track of items as you edit them, items are now highlighted after dragging and dropping them.
• Keyboard shortcuts have been added to increase, decrease, and reset the zoom level.

Onboarding

• To help people get started planning their story, project, historical or legal timelines, we’ve redesigned the welcome screen and added new starter files that are populated with example content.
• We’ve updated the example timelines to better showcase the most relevant features and use cases.

Syncing

• Aeon Timeline now syncs with Ulysses' Projects feature.

Spreadsheet and Outline Views

• Spreadsheet and Outline Views now more clearly show items’ chronological and narrative positions in the leftmost column.
• You can now copy and paste in Spreadsheet and Outlines Views by first selecting an entire row by clicking on a cell in the leftmost column.
• Date fields in Spreadsheet View, Outline View, and the inspector now appear blank when they aren’t set rather than showing “None”.
• Instead of scrolling and causing a large screen jump, Spreadsheet View now shows a sticky row when an edit causes a row to move out of view.
• The column settings for Spreadsheet and Outlines View are now more accessible through the + column or in the footer.

Timeline View

• You can now navigate the Timeline context bar with a single click instead of a double-click.
• We’ve removed some unnecessary whitespace from the Grouped layout in Timeline View.

Relationship View

• Relationship View now indicates the hovered column and row.

Subway View

• To improve readability, the Subway view now better adapts its layout to support different font sizes.

Interface and Display

• The app now defaults to the Light theme for new users.
• In order to offer you more icon options, we have switch to a standardised icon set. More icon options have been added for item types and calendar markers.
• Selected items now appear in an active color (blue for most themes) for better visibility.
• We’ve removed the active color from the work view headers to reduce visual noise.
• We're added the option to show each related item type on a new line in item cards.
• Zoom options have been added for iPad and iPhone in the View Display Settings panel.

Custom Templates

• Custom templates can now include relationships.

Windows

• In Windows, when the app doesn’t have the necessary permissions to update, it will now prompt for permissions rather than failing silently. Note that this will only start to take effect with the next release.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where some changes made in Scrivener would not be synced when quickly switching from Scrivener and syncing before Scrivener could save the changes. Now, the app will display a message when the file has changed on disk and cancel the sync. In this situation, you will need to click Sync again to bring over the newly saved changes.
• The validation when adding a link is now less strict and won’t wipe out the link on validation error.
• Fixed many additional bugs.

We have just released version 3.1.8, which includes the following bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue in Spreadsheet and Outline views where you could hide the sequence and position columns but then they could not be shown again.
• Fixed a syncing bug where changing a synced entity type to be an event type in your timeline could cause metadata related to that type to be removed from Scrivener.
• Fixed a printing bug where the boxes around grouped items would print as curved lines rather than straight boxes.

We have just released version 3.1.6, which includes the following bug fixes:

Timeline View

• Fixed an issue where Timeline View could go blank at certain zoom levels when using a calendar with less than seven weekdays.
• Fixed an issue where ongoing events weren’t drawn to the end of the timeline when the timeline was set to a limited date range.

Copy and Paste

• Fixed an issue where the app could crash when copying items with attachments to different files.

Filtering

• Fixed an issue where filtering for “Male” also matched “Female”.

CSV Import

• Fixed an issue where end dates were not being imported.

Tutorial

• Fixed an issue where tutorial messages could be hidden behind the inspector.

Syncing

• Fixed an issue where ignored synced items could not be relinked.

Aeon Timeline 3.1.5 fixes a small bug introduced in 3.1.4 when dragging items without dates into the timeline from other views.

Syncing

• Fixed an issue where the app couldn’t sync with Ulysses when sheet titles started with certain special characters.
• Fixed an issue where setting documents to ignore would reset other syncing assignments.
• Fixed an issue where after creating new entities in both Timeline and Scrivener and selecting to link them, the Timeline option would disappear when changing the link.
• Fixed an issue where previously ignored documents couldn’t be changed to be synced to existing events.
• Fixed an issue where keyword type settings could be ignored, causing extra relationships to be synced.
• Fixed an issue where changes to synced color names in Scrivener would be reset.

Dependencies and Constraints

• Fixed a bug where date constraints and age calculations could become incorrect when when customizing the calendar while creating a timeline from a custom template with saved events.
• Fixed an issue where not all dated items were available as options when creating a dependency
• Fixed an issue where dependencies weren’t removed when changing an item’s type to a dateless one until reopening the file.

Mindmap View

• Fixed a display issue where turning on Blocked By could cause text to overflow the item card.
• Fixed a display issue where relationship icons could be squished for relationships with longer names.

Spreadsheet View

• Fixed a display issue where tags appeared too large in Spreadsheet view.

Inspector

• Fixed an issue where the Relationships tab options would be disabled when selecting multiple items of different types, even if they allowed the same relationships.

User Interface

• Fixed an issue where Remove from view was available as an option when selecting items in entity panels.
• Fixed notifications being covered by the inspector.
• Fixed a bug where the Scroll to Date panel could crash when using a custom calendar.

CSV Import/Export

• Fixed an issue where dependencies would export as avatar initials instead of identifiers.
• Fixed an issue where the CSV import panel’s date order option would not default to the app’s date order setting.
• Fixed an issue where exported items were listed in random order.

Printing and PDFs

• Fixed an issue where dependency lines could be misaligned when printing Timeline view.
• Fixed an issue where printing dependencies in Narrative view could cause extra line breaks.
• Fixed various sizing and alignment issues when printing Spreadsheet view.
• Fixed performance issues/long wait times when exporting large images/PDFs.
• Fixed the preview when exporting large images/PDFs to not appear too small.

Windows

• Fixed an issue where large files with special characters could crash when opened.
• Fixed an issue where Timeline view could temporarily appear blank when viewing a timeline with very long dependency lines.

Mac

• Fixed a potential crash caused when entering invalid link formats.

Aeon Timeline 3.0.22 has been released for Mac, Windows, and iOS.

For Windows users who have experienced auto-update issues due to using a on-admin Windows account, you will need to manually download and install this update. The problem was fixed in 3.0.21, so auto-update should work normally for any subsequent update, but you may still experience this issue if updating from before 3.0.21.

• This update fixes a rare crash when opening very large files.
• It should also be slightly faster opening large files.