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Q&A Is there any good time-line software out there?

Other than Scrivener :) I find Excel (or another spreadsheet program) works surprisingly well. First column: Year Second column: Month Third column: Day (Insert more columns as needed.) Last col...

posted 13y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T01:23:45Z (almost 5 years ago)
Other than Scrivener :) I find Excel (or another spreadsheet program) works surprisingly well.

- First column: Year
- Second column: Month
- Third column: Day
- (Insert more columns as needed.)
- Last column: event

If you have multiple items on the same Day, repeat the Day data and use a 24-hour clock, so you would have:

`1898|July|Holmes and Watson move into 221B Baker Street`  
`1898|October|Adventure of Irene Adler, aka That Woman`  
`1899|March|23|2:47|Holmes and Watson break into C.A. Milverton's house`  
`1899|March|23|3:15|Holmes and Watson escape with goods`  
`1899|March|23|12:22|Milverton discovers the theft`  
`1899|March|23|14:36|Lestrade is called`  
`1899|March|23|17:56|Holmes explains all to Lestrade, Watson goggles anew`  
`1902|June|Watson marries third wife`

and so on.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2011-03-20T14:59:14Z (over 13 years ago)
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