A Multipurpose Timeline Maker for Writers

Make history with Campfire’s Timeline Module, designed to help you build narrative timelines with nested notes that seamlessly connect to the rest of your story.

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Create Timelines That Adapt to Your Story

Campfire’s timeline is flexible to the needs of your writing projects. Use it for tracking contemporary story events, planning out thousands of years of history, or creating a multiverse!

Organize Different Periods of Time

Spin your own web of time with customizable rows and dividers. Drag & drop events and connect them flowchart-style to see how a single moment in time can change the course of history.

Outline Notes as a Mindmap

Wanna simply get ideas on the page before you start structuring your timeline? Freely arrange and connect cards on the canvas in any pattern or structure that suits your workflow!

Make Every Plot Point a Main Event

Every plot beat becomes a canon event inside the event card editor. Add and resize different panel types for story notes, writing detailed histories, and labeling event attributes.

Zoom Out For a Better View

Switch to the Gantt chart view to see your story events on a larger timescale. Quickly reference events across time, and label and color-code different periods for easier reference while you write.

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Enter a Whole New Era of Time-Tracking

Connect Your Fictional Calendar

Add a custom calendar for greater detail and accuracy while creating your world’s historical timeline. The link works both ways, so your inputs reflect across each of them! Learn More.

Closely Follow Character Journeys

Link your timeline events to the Arcs Module to visually see how characters change over time and ensure your story stays on the right path! Learn more.

Plot & Outline Your Story Structure

Use Our Free Plotting Templates

The Timeline Module includes 10+ free templates, like the three-act structure and fifteen story beats, to help you outline your novel faster.

Organize Story Beats by Act

Use event cards for your plot beats and group them by Act—or however you’re structuring your narrative!

Create Individual Character Timelines

Instead of Acts, use each row to structure the paths for each of your characters. Or do both! That’s the beauty of the Timeline Module.

Eighteen Modules

Campfire is made up of modules designed to help you plan, plot, and publish everything from your novel and character sheets to story outlines and interactive maps.

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What Our Community is Saying

AW

Campfire is awesome! I love how easy it is to keep up with every aspect of my story. The calendar and timeline features are my favorite!

Ana Williams

TM

As a visual processing person, Campfire has allowed me to write faster and better stories. I am able to see any possible inconsistencies in my story. Also, putting down timeline events allows me to put down the layout of my story first, and then flesh it out into a full story.

Tristen Mae

CA

I like the fact that I can separate different scenes and concepts into different events and have it all laid out in front of me visually instead of me having to read through pages and pages of notes.

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