PHANTOM SCRIBE / DOCUMENT GUIDE

Generated timelines and recorded editing history

These records answer different questions. Understanding the distinction helps you interpret a prepared document accurately.

A generated timeline starts with prepared text

Phantom Scribe builds a character sequence and cadence from text you supply. It includes pauses and playback offsets according to your settings. We use agenic typing to describe this generated cadence. The timeline describes what the software generated during preparation.

Recorded history starts with observed edits

An editing-history tool records changes as editing occurs. Phantom Scribe's cloud encoding does not recover earlier edits or record a person physically typing. A generated timeline does not establish who originally wrote a document or demonstrate manual authorship.

What the Word document contains

The DOCX contains native insertion revisions grouped by source runs, alongside a complete generated timeline covering each Unicode codepoint. Track Changes remains enabled for later edits. Native revision dates reflect actual encoding time; playback offsets describe the proposed cadence.

Where playback happens

The website previews the timeline, and downloadable HTML provides a separate playback view. Word can display the document's native revisions. Opening the DOCX alone does not automatically replay its embedded timeline.

Review the record in context

Keep the original text, review the prepared output, and describe the timeline as generated when sharing it. Follow the document and authorship requirements of the people or organizations receiving your work.

See the preparation workflow or read Microsoft's guide to Track Changes in Word.