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Open Ulysses and start working on your draft. Close your Scrivener project, which will execute External File Sync, then sync your project with your AT timeline as normal. This is not a problem since you want your External Folder Sync to happen before you move to iOS anyway. This happens on Mac, and your Scrivener project must be closed before you can sync it with your AT timeline.

Sync your project with your AT timeline.

If you’ve always used your timeline only on Mac, you’ll want to move it to a cloud service folder-your Dropbox folder, your iCloud drive, Google Drive-that you can access with the Files app on iOS.

Be sure your AT timeline is available on iOS.

Aeon timeline 3 mac#

The only way to get your changes from iOS AT into your Scrivener project (or vice-versa) is to open your timeline in Mac AT and sync with your Mac Scrivener project. You can’t sync your Scrivener project with your AT timeline on iOS, even if you have both iOS Scrivener and iOS AT installed. The key to understanding this workflow is that AT syncing happens on the Mac. 1 How do you integrate your AT timeline with your Mac Scrivener-iOS Ulysses workflow? You are syncing title, synopsis, label, status, keywords, and timeline-specific custom metadata (start date, end date, location, and arc.) The only Scrivener metadata that’s in your project and not in your timeline are your Inspector document notes and maybe non-timeline custom metadata. So let’s assume that you already use AT and have a timeline for your Scrivener project set up and syncing.

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Besides, while AT is not expensive software (as such things go) it’s not free either, and you’ll need to buy both Mac and iOS licences for it. In that case, you’ll be ahead by compiling your metadata to an outline document, as I described in Part 4. It’s a lot of effort if you don’t want to work with a timeline. In order to sync your Mac Scrivener project with AT, you’ll need to actually build a timeline with at least relative dates for your texts (called events in AT). I don’t recommend this workflow if you don’t want to use AT for, well, a timeline. Further, you can both view and edit that metadata on your iOS device by opening your timeline in iOS Aeon Timeline (or on iPads, by putting AT in a split-screen with Ulysses or in a slide-over panel.) You’ll need to have AT installed on both your Mac and on iOS for this to work. Workflow with Aeon TimelineĪn Aeon Timeline (AT) timeline that’s synced with your Scrivener project already has much of your Scrivener metadata in it. I strongly recommend you make the changes to your existing Scrivener project that I suggested in Part 2 and set up sync as in Part 3 before proceeding.

Aeon timeline 3 how to#

If you’re new to my articles on how to edit Scrivener projects with Ulysses, please review “Is this workflow for you?” in Part 1. In Part 4, I discussed some simple methods to refer to your Scrivener metadata (or outline) while working in iOS Ulysses. In Part 3, I discussed setting up sync between Ulysses and Scrivener on either Dropbox or iCloud Drive, and best practices going forward. In Part 2, I talked about changing your existing project so that it compiles with the Scrivener “Convert MultiMarkdown to Rich Text” (MMD→Rich Text) compile option ON, and so that it syncs as smoothly as possible with Ulysses. In Part 1 of this series, I talked about changing your Scrivener habits in order to edit with Ulysses, eventually. Part 5: Aeon Timeline-Scrivener-Ulysses Workflow Introduction

Part 4: Dealing With Scrivener Metadata.

Part 2: Prepping Your Existing Scrivener Project.

Part 1: Prepping Your Brain (Changing Your Scrivener Habits).

Scrivener and Ulysses CAN get along Articles in this series: