how do you add events to a person's life in their timeline - graduation, leaving home, marriage, first job, etc.?

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#1

how do you add events to a person’s life in their timeline - graduation, leaving home, marriage, first job, etc.?

#2

Hi mbzar, Welcome to the forum!

There are a few ways you can go about that, depending on how your timeline is set up and how many people you’re tracking.

Is your timeline intended to track the events of one person’s life, or do you want to enter these types of milestones for multiple people?

#3

Hi Rob,

Tracking multiple people and the events of their lives. Would like the events either on their own timeline or captured directly under it

Thx!

Mbzar

#4

I’m a complete Aeon newbie, so I hope I am relating what I see correctly; but I just looked over this discussion, and did the following (you can do it from any of the views, Timeline, Spreadsheet, etc.)(I am using the Novel template with sample data, with no changes yet):

  1. In the left-hand vertical menu, click on the character icon, and see the list of characters column come up on the left, which can be filtered, ordered as you like.
  2. Clicking on any character there brings up the inspector column on the right-hand side.
  3. In the inspector column, click on the ^ button for the Events section and you will immediately see a list of events that the selected character participates in; and you can even add in more events for the selected character.
  4. Relationships of any kind can be viewed in the inspector.

Then, you can also go to the Relationship view (Timeline, Spreadsheet, Relationship…) and see a horizontal list of characters and locations which are related to any event in the left-hand column. You can also add additional columns.

I don’t know whether or not this fits your current needs, or if that is what you are looking for.

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