novelyst_aeon2

The novelyst Python program helps authors organize novels.

The novelyst_aeon2 plugin synchronizes novelyst projects with Aeon Timeline 2.

Features

Update an existing novelyst project from a timeline

• Update scene date, time, duration, description, tags, and relationships.
• Missing scenes, characters, locations, and items are created.
• Scenes are marked “unused” if the associated event is deleted in Aeon.

Update an existing timeline from a novelyst project

• Update event date, time, duration, description, tags, and relationships.
• Entity types “Arc”, “Character”, “Location”, and “Item”, and a Narrative arc are created, if missing.
• Event properties “Description” and “Notes” are created, if missing.
• Missing events, characters, locations, and items are created.
• “Narrative” events are removed if the associated scene is deleted in novelyst.

Create a new timeline from a novelyst project

• Just update an empty timeline from a novelyst project.

Requirements

• Aeon Timeline 2. Note: There is now a separate converter for Aeon Timeline 3.
• novelyst version 4.0+

Download and install

Download the latest release (version 3.4.2)

• Extract the “novelyst_aeon2_v3.4.2” folder from the downloaded zipfile “novelyst_aeon2_v3.4.2.zip”.
• Move into this new folder and launch setup.pyw. This installs the plugin for the local user.

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Changelog

Usage and conventions

See the instructions for use

License

This is Open Source software, and the novelyst_aeon2 plugin is licensed under GPLv3. See the GNU General Public License website for more details, or consult the LICENSE file.