The relationship map and the timeline

Two read-only views of your story wiki. Nothing in them changes your files.

Open the wiki, then choose Relationship map… or Timeline… from the … button beside the wiki's buttons.

The relationship map

Each dot is a wiki page, in the colour of its category. A line joins two pages when one of them points at the other, in either of two ways:

• a detail that holds a link to another page, such as Close to, Lives at, Belongs to, Led by or Members (any detail of the kind “link to a page”, or a list of them);
• a [[link]] written in the page's text, or in one of its text details.

Links are one-way in your files (Ines can be close to Tomas without Tomas saying so). The map draws one line either way. The list under the map says which way each one goes.

• Click a dot (or press Enter on it) to open that page.
• Show these categories narrows the map to the categories you pick. A big wiki is easier to read one or two categories at a time.
• Connections from limits the lines to details only, to links in the text only, or both.
• Centre (a button in each row of the list) shows that page and the pages directly joined to it. Show everything again puts the whole map back.
• The map draws the best-connected 60 pages. When there are more, it says so and the list below it still holds every page that matches.
• The list under the map has the same information as words: each page, its category and what it is joined to. Use it with a screen reader or the keyboard, or whenever the picture is too small.

Pages whose details could not be read (the block at the top of the file is not valid) are named under the list, with what is wrong, so you can open them and fix them. They are never left out silently.

The timeline

Every wiki detail of the kind date puts its page on the timeline: the When of a Timeline event (from the Worldbuilding template), Born for a person, Due for a release, and any date detail you add to a category.

Rescriptus reads what it can and shows everything as you wrote it:

• Dates: 1204-03-02, 1204-03, 1204, 3 March 1204, March 3, 1204, a year before the common era (44 BC, 44 BCE), and years in an era of your own (1204 AR).
• Years: 1204, Year 1204, in the year 1204, and about-years such as c. 1204 or 1204? (placed at the year they name).
• Ranges: 1204-1210, 1204 to 1210, 1204-03-02 to 1204-05-09.

Pages are grouped by year, earliest first. Years in an era of your own (1204 AR) are grouped by that era, because they cannot be compared with years in another calendar. Everything it cannot read, such as “the third winter” or a day in a calendar you invented, goes under Undated or not understood, in the words you wrote. A Timeline event with no date at all is listed there too.

The timeline can be narrowed by category like the map. It is read-only: change a date on the page itself. Putting the undated pages in an order of your own is not built yet.