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Dr. Drib: Thanks for the suggestion. WriteItNow4 defines events as objects separate to the scenes and then requires you to link them into your scenes ... and then appears to do nothing more with them. In a book with any significant number of events this is likely to become cumbersome very quickly. I compare this with yWriter5 that allows you to specify the start-time and duration for each scene - which seems like it was heading the way I wanted ... but so far I've not found any way that it makes use of that information.
Dadioflex: Thanks for the suggestion. The Storybook "strands" feature seems to come close to what I was referring to as threads ... but my feeling for their interface is that they have concentrated on pretty rather than useful, you definitely need a large screen to see much of what's going on, and I don't fancy trying to manage an entire novel via their interface - though their "Simpsons" episode example works well enough. On a technical note: I am not a fan of Java apps for this sort of thing, the user interface elements are never as smooth as other apps, and this is amply shown in Storybook; also it is hard to manage java apps via a firewall (preventing phone-home and similar).
Disclaimer/warning: There is so much software out there that my "review" of them so far has been necessarily brief (though a few I am still looking at when I get time). I may be missing things that you find out only when you start actively trying to use the software for your own project. The problem is that that sort of in-depth review takes more time than I have at the moment (which is one of the reasons why a guided tutorial like that with Scrivener can be so useful).
Thanks again to everyone for their input so far, it has been instructive and has found more choices than I had managed on my own.
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