Using Aeon as a component

Q & A
#1

Hi there!
Just discovered Aeon, looks amazing :heart_eyes:

Is it possible to use Aeon as a component on my website and interact with it, load data from a database, allow a user to browse through a timeline, receive events, etc?

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#2

Welcome to the community.

My understanding is that the developers are working on a cloud-based version of Aeon Timeline. My guess is that it would do what you are hoping for. We havenā€™t heard anything in months on this web-based version, so I donā€™t know when it could be released in beta.

In the meantime, the upcoming hardware-based version 3.5, now in beta, can export various views as an image file, csv, etc., so at least youā€™ll be able to use static images/data for your website in the meantime.

I know this isnā€™t much to go on, but itā€™s all I can come up with as a fellow user of Aeon Timeline.

#3

Awesome, thanks for the quick response!
If I can ask a quick follow up, do you know if I can load data from my own database into Aeon somehow? Or would I need to add everything by hand through the Aeon interface?

#4

Iā€™m using the beta 3.5 version, and in that version, yes, you can import CSV or TSV. I ā€œbelieveā€ you can similarly import this sort of delimited data in the current version. Open a project, click File, and look for the import option.

#5

Check out this article from the knowledge base: Importing text (e.g. CSV) files - Aeon Timeline 3 Knowledge Base

#6

Thanks again! Much appreciated.

#7

Two thumbs up for the import function. Itā€™s very flexible. The only field you have to have in the input is the event title and it doesnā€™t matter what that column in the CSV is called.

Recently, I wrote a Python script to extract Mellel Story Points.

Mellel is, for the true believer, the king of all word processors - but it might not be for everyone.

Story points are probably unique to Mellel. You drop story points where you want in your MS. You can keep a repository of characters and locations if you want. They can be associated with story points.

I never used them, but I think Iā€™m going to start. My story point extracts feed right into Aeon without any trouble or human intervention. Itā€™s not quite the integration of Aeon and Scrivener, but for 20 minutesā€™ work Iā€™m happy with it.