Create portable, interactive timelines from Markdown in your notes to make time make sense.
You can also do text-to-timeline using AI
Install: Chronos Timeline plugin
Create manually or from a template
Or even generate from text with AI
Record dates down to the second
In BC or AD time
With color if you like
Optionally add descriptions that appear on hover
Go nuts
I’ve been waiting for something like this. Thank you!!!
This is such a cool plugin, thank you!! I especially love the integration of BCE time, very useful
This is great, but a vertical option would be amazing!
Already love the look of the timeline and will play around with it this weekend. Timelines were a feature I always would love to see build into Obsidian.
Is it possible to have this plugin collect the date data from all notes in the vault? I use Obsidian for my genealogy research and have a separate notes for every event. It would be awesome if one could add a timeline note that aggregates all the chronos data blocks from all notes into one single timeline.
This combined with tags that somehow control which blocks gets included (just person x or just event birth…) would allow perfect timelines for many use cases like a single timeline on a project note and a combined project overview where all project start dates are combined. Maybe even a combined timeline of when you do workouts extracted from dates in daily notes using a tags/properties that can be specified.
Thanks for your work. DEFAULTVIEW flag gives error when, in my experience, characters such as “ğ, ş” are used in the code block.
This looks really promising! Great work.
One question: is it possible to link different items logically and timewise?
E.g. a sub item will have a duration of 2 days, but 10 days after the start of the parent item.
If I move the parent item (change the date) the sub item will be moved as well.
Possible?
Thanks for raising - will investigate
interesting idea - please submit a feature request : GitHub - clairefro/obsidian-plugin-chronos: Render interactive timelines in your Obsidian notes from simple Markdown.
You can combine Chronos with the Dataview plugin to create dynamic timelines.
There are some examples here:
This is awesome, thank you!! I’m trying to build a timeline from a Dataview table consisting of chapters from my book. I’ve managed to create a timeline showing chapters as events using the date in their YAML header, but I can’t seem to find a way to integrate modifiers into the DataviewJS syntax. I used your Basic example code on GitHub with the birthdays. But I can’t figure out, how to add any options to group or at least color these migrated events by the POV characters (YAML header and Dataview table also contains this information). Can modifiers only be used with static events? Any ideas would be appreciated!
It would be great to incorporate also Gemini API!
