Hi!
Please share your ideas for using tags.
Maybe I’m missing an unknown opportunity to use them.
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Usually tags serve as filter criteria for export, or as search and sort criteria. Or they simply contain additional information that does not fit into any of the existing categories. They can be seen as simple generic properties or references. Aeon Timeline offers alternatives, e.g. through self-defined item properties, which can be more specific.
So if you think of a property or a reference that you don’t want to set up explicitly for the item type, you can use tags.
If you want to organise your narrative according to a dramaturgical scheme, you can specify a “plot point” property for the events, for example. Alternatively, you can simply use tags like “inciting event” or “climax”.
The provided example project “Murder on the Orient Express” has some tags, maybe this will inspire you.
Cheers,
Peter
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Dramatical scheme I made by adding new item and relationship options.
I know what tags are for. I just wanted some exchange of experience here
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I use tags to force keywords into Ulysses. This way I can sync the majority of my metadata; relationships, properties etc into notes in Ulysses but still choose select keywords I want to show up in my writing software. I have tags for draft status, POV characters etc.
I have played around with Scrivener sync, mostly throughout the alpha and beta phases of AT3, but I can’t remember how Scrivener handles tags from AT3. I imagine though that it is similar to Ulysses and that a keyword would be added to Scrivener upon insertion of a tag in AT3. Given that users can select either Custom Metadata fields or keywords to sync relationships to Scrivener, tags can provide additional flexibility outside this system.
I use Scrivener and use Status for draft status, Label for POV and Custom metadata fields for other things.
quite well
I use a tag to filter my Narrative and Timeline views to only show my current work. I used Aeon for my first novel. So now, as I’m plotting Book 2, I’ve created a tag “Book 2,” which I’ve added to all new items (and original ones carrying over to Book 2), and applied a filter for that tag to the Narrative and Timeline views. So I only see items tagged with Book 2.
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Intrestind. Are you writing a series of books?
I wonder what special items do you have for another book? All my items are universal.
Yes, three books planned. Some of my characters in Book 1 are not in this book. But mostly I use it for Events, so the timeline starts with the Events of Book 2 and I don’t have to scroll through earlier events. Just makes things easier.
If you’re trying to figure out what you can use the tags for, maybe think about what you often search for. If you find yourself making a certain search repeatedly, you can create a tag for that, enter it for the appropriate items, and then filter the timeline for that tag. I leave my tag filter on, so I don’t have to do this after the first time. Aeon opens for me with that filter on. Very convenient.
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