I have posted yesterday my writing workflow for stories and screenplays.
Even though I only work in outline view it might work for your purpose.
To filter by different arcs and timelines I use different attributes.
$MyTimeSlot for time line view and $MySet for an ArcView. In my example $MyTimeSlot is just a string but could be a date as well.
In my current project I have 6 different views which are all populated by an attribute and filtered and sorted by agent.
To sort the notes in manuscript order $MyNumber works quite well.
If you want to use MapView and export it later in sequential order I remember a video from @satikusala where someone (a Filmmaker from Sao Paulo) proposed to use the x or y coordinates.