Can I add dates to my events and characters?

How do I date an event?

When you add or edit an event in the Event Flow, you can give it a calendar date, plus an end date if it lasts several days or several years. The calendar date is optional. The event's free-text date note (say, 'the 40th day of the siege') stays as you wrote it and is never converted by itself. If your note is a date yazar.io recognizes, such as 'May 29, 1453', it offers to add it as the calendar date; nothing changes unless you accept.

How do I date characters and other records?

The character profile comes with Date of Birth and Date of Death fields. For anything else, add date fields of your own: a date field you add to the Field Template ('Coronation Date', 'Founding Date') shows on every record in that section, and Add Custom Field on a record's form adds a date field to that record alone. This isn't limited to characters; it works for locations, organizations and the other sections too.

Partial dates and BC

If you don't know the day, you don't have to invent one. A date can be a year alone ('1453'), a year and month ('May 1453') or a full day, and yazar.io never fills in the missing part with a guess. You choose BC or AD for each date. There is no year zero: 1 BC is followed by AD 1, and ages and durations are worked out accordingly. How dates are written across the dashboard (the order of day, month and year) is set by the date format in Settings; saved dates don't change.

The calendar is the standard one: twelve months, the usual month lengths and leap years. If your world has its own month names, keep them in the free-text date note.

What is free, and what is Yazar Pro?

Free for all writers: the Event Flow, calendar dates on events, dates of birth and death, your own date fields, the date picker and the date format. Part of Yazar Pro: the Calendar with its Day, Week, Month and Year views, the Timeline, characters' ages at each event and their lifelines, and the calendar's seasons, weather and occasions layers.

Dates you enter on the free plan aren't wasted: when you move to Yazar Pro, the calendar opens already filled with them. If a subscription ends, your dates aren't deleted; only the visual tabs lock again. You can see what the calendar looks like in the Sample Book with a free account. The tabs are described on the timeline software page.