Timeline 1
Timeline 2
Timeline 3: Map
Timeline 4
Timeline 5: Event Granulation
Event Granulation
Although there would be default encyclopedia-inspired timelines in this application - these default timelines' events would first need to be strictly independent in an axiomatic way in order to allow users to then reshape those events in their own custom created timelines. After choosing to see events in disassociated mode, they would then be able to re-organize them into their own custom groupings, dependencies, and associations. The app's AI could then borrow that data to help other users.In order for this to occur, each and every event needs to have its own data associated with it that allows it to be used in multiple narratives. Events are therefore tied to as many absolute reference points as possible, such as time and geography. However on this granulated and axiomatic ground level, events are also tied to as few fluid/relative assertions as possible.
Although an event might typically be thought to always be associated with the civil war for instance, that event would also exist as its own entity, outside of any necessary association with the civil war. This is what is meant by 'disassociated mode'. Users could build new associations of events with larger or different paradigms or narratives.
But the buck stops at these granulated events. They form the backbone of all subsequent AI and relationships that tie them together. As such, they must be carefully granulated.
After all, this is not your grandmother's timeline. This is a Universal timeline of all events - if the user so desires.
Search AI
In the same way that Google ties users' word searches to web pages, this software would require immense efforts in AI to build and tie relationships between events in such a way that users' searches and filters would work on the granulated events - to allow them to work into multiple interpretive scopes of narrative.Search AI would also use user search data and creation data to make useful suggestions when creating and customizing. This could of course be turned off.
The media pane as another example (a pane that shows thumbnails and links to pictures, web pages, images, and videos associated with searches) is not as simple as preset presentations, although that is what they can be. But they can show related media just as Google might present related images etc. to word searches. In some way it might be possible to literally use the Google search engine to accomplish this particular feature.
