chronicling
Setting down events
Chronicling is the act of recording events in order, typically as they unfold over time.
A journalist might be chronicling a political campaign; a biographer might be chronicling someone's life.
The word suggests thorough, ongoing documentation rather than a single snapshot: She spent years chronicling the rise and fall of the empire.
Personal daily record
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- biographyWritten life account
- autobiographySelf-penned life narrative
- annalsYear-by-year historical account
logbook · narrative · archive · manuscript · ethnography · monograph · journal · testimony
Great age, ancient era
- civilizationsComplex organized human societies
- erasNamed spans of history
- dynastiesSuccessive rulers from one family
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
genealogy · ancestry · traditions · mythology · legends · epochs · reigns · conquests
Recorded moment identifier
- logSectioned tree trunk
- registerRecord officially; vocal range
- catalogOrdered list of items
- minutesSixty-second intervals
transcription · audio · video · capture · documentation · evidence · notation · inscription
Without pause or gap
- sustainedKept up continuously
- unfoldingGradually becoming apparent
- real-timeOccurring without processing delay
- serializedReleased in sequential parts
episodic · running · cumulative · evolving · sequential · incremental · play-by-play · live-tweeting
Conveying documented information
- correspondentJournalist covering distant events
- coverageExtent of inclusion
- editorialPublication's official viewpoint article
- columnistRecurring newspaper feature writer
byline · headline · newsroom · press · media · broadcast · documentary · investigative
diary
Personal daily record
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- biographyWritten life account
- autobiographySelf-penned life narrative
annals · logbook · narrative · archive · manuscript · ethnography · monograph · journal · testimony · account
antiquity
Great age, ancient era
- civilizationsComplex organized human societies
- erasNamed spans of history
- dynastiesSuccessive rulers from one family
heritage · genealogy · ancestry · traditions · mythology · legends · epochs · reigns · conquests · empires
timestamp
Recorded moment identifier
minutes · transcription · audio · video · capture · documentation · evidence · notation · inscription · memorandum
continuous
Without pause or gap
- sustainedKept up continuously
- unfoldingGradually becoming apparent
- real-timeOccurring without processing delay
serialized · episodic · running · cumulative · evolving · sequential · incremental · play-by-play · live-tweeting · blogging
reporting
Conveying documented information
- correspondentJournalist covering distant events
- coverageExtent of inclusion
- editorialPublication's official viewpoint article
columnist · byline · headline · newsroom · press · media · broadcast · documentary · investigative · embed
- historianshistorian, historians, annalist, annalists, historiographer
- Relatinglinking, connecting, pertaining, associating, correlating
- genealogyfamily trees, family history, descendants, ancestors, ancestry tracing
- literary techniquesforeshadowing, alluding, symbolizing, satirizing, parodying
- narrationfirst person, second person, third person, voice-over, narrator
chroniclingerasing
Removing recorded marks
destroying · obliterating · expunging · deleting · effacing
chroniclingignoring
Deliberately not noticing
neglecting · overlooking · disregarding · omitting · passing over
chroniclingfalsifying
Making intentionally untrue
distorting · misrepresenting · fabricating · mythologizing · whitewashing
chronicle, synchronize, chronicles, anachronism, chronicled, chronicler, anachronistic, synchronized, synchronicity