Over the past few weeks I’ve been reading some books on a couple of topics that might turn into stories. It’s still early days yet but I’m already seeing the need for a timeline of some sort to track the sequence of events.

The first topic is the English Civil War, or more correctly, as I’ve learned, the British Civil War. For this tracking it made sense to use Aeon Timeline. I’ve owned the software for several years and for tracking people, battles, and events, and the relationships between them, it’s ideal for this level of detail

The second topic is more nebulous. I have a couple of dates and some events but I’m not sure yet how they are related, or even if they are or should be. While I have a pretty clear idea where I’m going with et British Civil War idea, I’m not so sure about this second one, and Aeon is clearly overkill.

What I need is something really simple, and not surprisingly an article about Obsidian gave me the answer. I set up notes with the title being the date and a very short description. In the body of the note I link to another note that describes the topic. Within that note I can now display a table of all linked items in date order and I have a lightweight timeline I can add to easily.