Can't Sync Anything but Manuscript Narrative with Scrivener

[ItsRelly (Relly)]

Hi,

I’m not sure if I’m missing something really obvious, but I read through all the guides, and tried to find YouTube videos, and went through similar posts on this forum.

I’m trying to sync my timeline with a Scrivener doc on my Mac (most recent updates for both). I can sync the narrative folder just fine, but when I try to sync any of the entities, where I’m supposed to select the timeline items, all I have in the dropdown is None. The characters, locations, etc. don’t show up for me to select. I’ve tried syncing the narrative and closing the programs and going back in, I’ve tried starting with a new Scrivener doc, nothing seems to be working.

Hopefully someone can help me before I lose my mind and copy and paste everything manually. Thank you in advance!

[SCN (Steve)]

Hi Relly. Welcome to the forum.

By design, Aeon Timeline syncs the narrative to Scrivener and not the timeline. The theory is that the timeline denotes events in their true order, but that when writing we could order events any way we want. This is probably best appreciated by novelists, I suspect.

[Goaliedad]

I use keywords which can be imported and Aeon labels as tags. I then create and assign characters , locations, themes, etc using the tags which depend on checking them to be visible. If you add dates as text in custom metadata fields, then you can import the dates for your scenes as well.