I think the idea of keeping a liner scale, but breaking it with a sort of "torn page" indicator, is a great one, and (to me at least) visually more intuitive than non-linear representations of the past or future or, indeed, gaps in the timeline. If the user adds an event that falls inside ...

(I didn't want to clutter Matt's Aeon Timeline announcement thread , which is why I'm posting this here.) One way could be to implement "nested events". For example, A war (event with a time span) could contain sub-events for various notable battles, each of which might contain sub-events ...

Thank you for the prompt reply. I understand about "feature creep", no problem. With S2 out right now, it's my birthday and Christmas rolled into one already, no worries! :) Who knows, maybe next year Apple will come to their senses and say "Oh what the hell, let them have RTF editing...

First of all, thanks for Scrivener 2, I'm absolutely enamoured with it. Secondly, I've searched the forum, but don't seem to find a discussion of what follows, so please forgive me if I suck at searching... I use Scrivener as the central point for assembling and generally managing my manuscripts, bu...