Revit writes a journal of everything that happens in a session — every command, every sync, every crash — in a script only Autodesk support can read. Chronicle turns it into plain language: pick any session, or several, and read the whole story on a filterable timeline, then export a post-mortem anyone can open. And while you work, it quietly records what changes on every sync, so “who deleted this?” finally has an answer.
Every session, Revit writes journal.NNNN.txt — the full record of the day, in a replay script meant for a machine. When a model crashes or a wall vanishes, the answer is in that file; the file might as well be encrypted.
Chronicle is read-only end to end — it reads files Revit already wrote, and records to its own local store. It never touches the model.
Click Chronicle — no model needed. It scans every installed Revit version's Journals folder in the background, with a real progress readout, and lists the sessions grouped by project, model or user. Each row is named by the model, never the journal number; it carries a verdict dot — green clean, amber worth a look, red no clean exit — plus the user, date, duration and action count. Tick one session or five: the whole week of a model, or one user's day across models, merges into a single story.
“Synchronised with central.” “Loaded family Door-Handle-Lever.” “Error reported — 1 error(s), 2 warning(s).” Every action lands on the timeline, colour-coded by category, newest first, searchable. Escape-key and zoom churn is classed as noise and hidden by default — one tick brings it back. Above it, the verdict: how often the session synchronised and the longest gap, warnings and errors, and whether the journal ends with a clean close. The flags are honest sentences — “Last sync was 52m before the session ended — unsaved work may be at risk.”
While you work, Chronicle captures what every sync changed — created, modified, deleted — clustered per sync and per user, so a sync three people fed shows three correctly attributed bands. Select an element and its history follows; the Deleted card names the deleter when the record knows, and says “Unknown” when it honestly doesn't. Two switches — Live Activity and History — sit right on the cards, mirrored live with the Lens panel.
Compare against the last sync, this session — or any sync the record holds. Chronicle totals created, modified and deleted, lists the most-changed categories each with a one-click Select, and paints the model: created green, modified amber, everything untouched ghosted. Toggles isolate each group while the paint is on, and clearing it puts the view back exactly as it was.
One click exports the combined timeline as a single HTML file — no install, no internet, works offline. Session status, duration, syncs, warnings and errors up top; a written summary; the sync-cadence strip; the full filterable timeline and the most-used commands. Mail it to whoever asked “what happened on Thursday?” — they need a browser, not Revit. The report below is a real one.
This is an actual HTML report Chronicle exports — self-contained, works offline, shareable as one file. Scroll it right here, or open it full-screen.
Chronicle ships on the QA / QC panel of the BIMIO tab. Open any session — even from months ago — read it in plain language, and export the post-mortem. Read-only, always. Revit 2024–2027, full trial, no card.