How TimeStory works
Plain-language answers to the ideas behind the badges, scores and AI tools you'll meet around the app.
Trust Score
Every TimeStory carries a Trust Score from 0 to 100. It is calculated automatically from measurable qualities: how many moments cite a source, how complete the dates and descriptions are, whether media and links resolve, how evenly the story covers its period, and what readers report.
A high score means the TimeStory is well built and well sourced. It is a craft signal, not a fact check — always read the sources on a moment before relying on it.
Open the score pill on any TimeStory to see the full breakdown, dimension by dimension.
Community verification
Readers can mark individual moments as accurate or inaccurate, and can send the author a correction with a source.
A TimeStory becomes Community Verified when enough readers have confirmed its moments and no accuracy reports are left unresolved. Authors keep control: suggestions arrive as proposals they accept or decline, and every accepted change is kept in version history.
AI-assisted TimeStories
Create with AI drafts a structure from a prompt, a résumé, a document or a CSV. You always review the draft before anything is saved, and you can regenerate the overview, split or merge moments, or add more research later.
AI-assisted TimeStories are labelled so readers know how they began. The author remains responsible for the final content, and sourcing still drives the Trust Score.
Contribution score
Your contribution score summarises what you have added to the community: TimeStories published, moments researched, and the likes, comments and bookmarks that follow.
It rewards depth over volume — one carefully sourced TimeStory counts for more than several thin ones.
Helpful tips
Small explanations appear when you hover, focus or tap the less obvious controls around the app. Turn them off once you know your way around.
Contextual explanations on scores, AI tools and viewer controls.