AI in Radial Timeline

Radial Timeline is a complete writing instrument with AI switched off or on. The AI settings toggle fully gates all AI provider functionality. Nothing from your manuscript is ever sent anywhere without an explicit action by you, and there is no Radial Timeline AI server: when you do use AI, your text goes only to the provider you chose, under your own key, giving you transparency and accountability.

ai: off

# AI off — the full instrument

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All four timeline modes: Progress, Narrative (with drag reordering), Chronologue, Gossamer (manual beat scoring — a manual workflow by design)

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The four timelines: narrative, chronological, author time, and progress stages (Zero → Author → House → Press)

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Scene right-click contextual menu to Change Stage and Status, Create scene, Set Chapter, and more.

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Book Designer scaffolding — scenes, acts, subplots, characters, story beats

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Scene management, subplot manager, beat systems (Save the Cat, Hero’s Journey, custom)

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Deterministic Timeline audit + repair and Property audit + heal

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Sessions — sprints, writing stats, daily and weekly targets, estimated completion, Zero draft mode with Pending Edits

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Runtime estimator — pure words-per-minute math for audiobook

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Manuscript export — compiled Markdown, PDF layouts, DOCX submission format, outlines

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Author Progress Report and Campaigns, Community Share

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Planetary time calculator, timeline Search

ai: on

# AI on — everything on the left, plus

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Pulse triplet analysis — a scene-by-scene editorial read using a three scene rolling window (previous / current / next) that stress-tests whether your scenes land all the notes you intended.

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Inquiry — a manuscript-wide editorial lens: structured questions across Setup, Pressure, and Payoff, read through Flow (narrative momentum) and Depth (thematic substance)

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Scene summary refresh — regenerate summaries where they’re missing, weak, or stale

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Gossamer AI scoring — a fresh, unconstrained read of momentum, tension, activity, and interiority across your story beats

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Timeline audit continuity pass — an optional AI layer over the deterministic findings; nothing is changed without your acceptance

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Manuscript onboarding (beta) — import an existing manuscript, running on a local model only

Feedback lands where the fix happens

In some tools, AI feedback is a destination: you carry your manuscript to a chat window, read the critique, then hunt back through your own pages to find each spot and transcribe the fix. In Radial Timeline, analysis arrives in situ. Pulse grades and notes are attached to the scene's human-readable properties. Inquiry can amend your existing Pending Edits with further action items. And the Editorialist companion plugin turns any review batch — from AI, a human editor, or a beta reader — into a controlled revision pass inside your vault, walking the suggestions scene by scene and line by line, right where the prose lives.

Nothing is applied until you act.

Every suggestion can be accepted, rejected, deferred, or rewritten as something that is neither the original line nor the machine’s — and the original can be backed up to the scene’s cut file before anything changes. The AI never rewrites your material out from under you. No hunting, no transcription, no loss of the line you might want back: a seamless workflow at full speed, under complete control.

The facts

Off by default. A fresh install is AI-free until you opt in — the toggle lives in Settings → AI.

AI acts only when you invoke it. Every AI feature is a command you run or a control you click. There are no background AI jobs.

Your key, your provider. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google — or a local model via Ollama, LM Studio, or any compatible server. Radial Timeline operates no AI backend of its own.

Local is first-class. Everything AI can run on your own machine; manuscript onboarding is local— by design.

Keys live in Obsidian’s secret storage. Results are written into your book vault, scene properties or organized under an umbrella Radial Timeline folder including all Inquiry sessions.

No telemetry. No analytics. No training on your work — with AI off or under the protection and isolation of your own local LLM.

Off means off. Disabling AI hides exclusively AI enabled tools and surfaces.

On the Community site

community.radialtimeline.com

AI writes the hourly Community Pulse digest and assists moderation sweeps. It never touches manuscripts — the Community never has them.

Your timeline works the way you work. AI is there when you want the assistance and workflow, and invisible when you don’t — the results you want, achieved the way you want them.

Your timeline works the way you work. AI is there when you want the assistance and enhanced workflow, and invisible when you don’t — the results you want, achieved the way you want them.

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