Documentation

Start with a project, then follow the evidence.

Learn how Chronal Studio connects ordinary local notes to dated facts, events, relationships, and the sources behind them.

See the first useful workflow.

Learn what Chronal tracks, how the files stay readable, and how to ask what was true at a chosen time without giving up normal writing.

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Greyhaven.md
Greyhaven.chronal.json
John Baldwin.md
John Baldwin.chronal.json
Council Election.md
Council Election.chronal.json
timeline.chronal.json

Getting started

Learn what Chronal does, how a project is stored, and the first useful workflow.

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Projects and files

How your writing and Chronal's dated project data stay portable in an ordinary folder.

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Core concepts

The few ideas Chronal tracks: people and things, events, changing facts, knowledge, time, and sources.

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Product guides

Timeline and point-in-time views

Move between a history of changes and what was true at one chosen moment.

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AI and connected agents

How built-in local AI, review, and optional bring-your-own-agent connections differ.

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Your writing stays yours.

A suggested fact or event only becomes part of the tracked project record after you review and accept it. Local AI is always local, always reviewable, and always optional.