How?

1. The first entry is going to be the most difficult, if there are key documents these should be seperated from your pre-method deconstruction,

Key documents are custody records, publications, hospital records, these will be first to enter chronology and you are looking only for facts. In chronology factory ONLY apply the date, main title (this can be the subject of a letter or other document) and a very brief desciption of what the date signifies not the document:

This is what was known
What decisions were made
What actions were taken
What records were created

If you begin by accusing, the method fails. If you begin by assuming fragmentated records, then you are winning, because those fragmented records... can be anchored to time.

2. Everything you collated goes under the spotlight of time

Do not add internal chronology jump links, do not add appendices jump links.

Until you have a 'working' chronology you will be lost:

If this is 'tedium', boredom, tiring, you are winning.

3. Do not try to 'run' at building your temporal 'map'

There will be points where you can answer some of the questions the documents placed in temporal order raise. Because the obvious will 'leap out' at you and where state impetus can be reversed, this is where you:

Write an appendix note
This is what appendices are for
Your observations of events
Your recollection of a contradiction
Your discovery of the link

Chronology Internal Jumps:

Internal chronology jumps do not need to be created when you create the entry
Entries can be edited, more information may become available
New documents can be added, refine notes, if absolutely necessary the entry can be redone
Bring the entry back into the editor, fix the issue, move on, next task
When you are certain two dates can be linked causally
Go back to the editor, add an internal chronology jump
Linking forward jumps: Bad ✕ = "I project you". Linking backard jumps: Good ✓ = "I refer you"

Document Lists:

Not all classes of document are catered for in colour coding
If you cannot establish a 'document class' the default is "Probative"
Default "Probative" documents belong in "/assets/linked-evididence/" if using the template

Machine-extracted summaries do help, however not all extraction services provide the same exactness of replication. CHECK EVERYTHING AGAINST ORIGINALS If something is incomplete, try another service.

4. Text extract sprawling formats

Different records are structured differently:

Custody records are fixed-form and easily readable
CAD logs, sprawling and not so easy, extract to text where possible
Healthcare records are repetitive, it is the nature of their system

These records must be located conceptually as events in time.

5. In time you will have a single, continuous temporal map of the contiuum

When you have every document temorally located you have a method and a mechanism:

You no longer need to 'hold everything' in your head, in bundles of documents

Everything is a click away.

6. Now you can start refining appendices, looking up relevant legislation, taking notes.

Legislation is a 'test instrument' it tests your temporal map for convergence or divergence.

This is where you may need help.

This is where you need objectivity not subjective perception.

7. Objectivity

This is the machinery that exposes contradictions, temporal impossibilities, changing narratives:

Time: This is the one thing that cannot be argued about
Method: This method instrumentalises time where everything is anchored
Mechanics: Legislative process follows and is always mechanical if you have followed the path honestly

The one thing that cannot be argued with is time.