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Timeline

Two tabs over your book's chronology. Dates is an entry table — every scene in reading order, with its date and timeline label editable in place, so you can build the whole timeline yourself with analysis switched off. Chronology draws it: a year axis across the top with your scenes grouped into date buckets beneath it — click a year to drill into it. It opens in chronological order, so you see the story as it happened; switch to reading order when you want to compare that against the order the manuscript tells it in. Two more toggles sit alongside: refined or original date labels, and a Characters lens that swaps the year axis for POV swimlanes, one dot per scene sized by word count. Scenes with no dates fall back to chapter grouping.

This documentation entry is part of the audited Bookshaper reference. Detailed workflow copy will be expanded here as the content migration continues.

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