How timelines relate
Main, detail, branch or independent: what each timeline shares with the others.
- Open the timeline's dialog with Edit.
- Under What it is, choose what it is: A principal timeline, A detail of another: the same reality, up close, A branch of another: it inherits its past and goes its own way or An independent reality.
- For a detail or a branch, choose under Of which timeline which timeline it comes from.
A detail
Say, "The harbor case" inside "The detective's story". What happens in one happens in the other.
A branch
It starts at the moment you type under When it splits off. From there each lives its own life: the detective can die in one branch and marry in another without Exaratio seeing a contradiction. A branch inherits what its parent had up to the fork; if you write something of its own about the same thing in the branch, the inherited part is cut there.
Independent
It shares nothing with the others.
Exaratio 0.9 · revision 1 · October 28, 2026