Save The Cat

[CameronCooks (L J Cameron)]

Thanks for the thinking out loud, Steve. I’ll take a look at Obsidian, but with a downdraft already in Scrivener, and the data for births/deaths/events in Timeline, I’m wary of introducing another new piece of software at this point.

Most of the story is thankfully straightforward for time and sequence of events. It’s the Ancestors and Dad’s ‘first family’ that are being uncooperative: so many people, so many possible storylines! (I should write a novel just about his grandparents’ arrival and life in the US in 1880…)

Here’s the plan in Scrivener:

[CameronCooks (L J Cameron)]

I’ve been color coding the family lines generally, but it occurs to me I could color-code the four branches more specifically, then try sorting the spreadsheet by date > color to show what happens to whom when. Anyway, this is the ancestors’ data in Timeline:

[ctutt (Charles Tutt)]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing and please keep us posted on this project.

Charles

[CameronCooks (L J Cameron)]

Will do, Charles. Thank you both for the encouragement!

– Laura

[SCN (Steve)]

@CameronCooks

I’ll take a look at Obsidian, but with a downdraft already in Scrivener, and the data for births/deaths/events in Timeline, I’m wary of introducing another new piece of software at this point.

I understand completely.