New plugin: Chronos Timeline - interactive timelines from Markdown

[clairefro]

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

[mxt]

I’ve been waiting for something like this. Thank you!!!

[clairefro]

As of version 1.0.5 you can render points in your timelines

[Engraver3428]

This is such a cool plugin, thank you!! I especially love the integration of BCE time, very useful

[NASACoverUp]

This is great, but a vertical option would be amazing!

[MacDefender]

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.

[bole]

Thanks for your work. DEFAULTVIEW flag gives error when, in my experience, characters such as “ğ, ş” are used in the code block.

[thefraggle]

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?

[clairefro]

Thanks for raising - will investigate

[clairefro]

interesting idea - please submit a feature request : GitHub - clairefro/obsidian-plugin-chronos: Render interactive timelines in your Obsidian notes from simple Markdown.

[clairefro]

You can combine Chronos with the Dataview plugin to create dynamic timelines.

There are some examples here:

GitHub - clairefro/obsidian-plugin-chronos: Render interactive timelines in your Obsidian...