Timeline for Stories, Books, Chapters, and so on

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I’d like to have a visual timeline that functions similarly to the cluster-view. Like a long, thin bar on the edge of the program window (whichever edge the end-user wants it to be on). Every note or file appear as a pip that expand when the cursor moves over it with shorter pips for sub-folders/notes/files/etc, similar to a magnifying effect found in other programs. Maybe even have a preview appear yo one side of the cursor when it’s directly over a pipped note or file.

I know I could just as easily do this in the file overview on the left… to a degree, but it’d be nice to have this timeline be separate as a way to search and view separate things at the same time, if that makes sense.

I’m sure other people could easily use this feature for other things.Writing story chapters and whatnot is just what I want to use it for.

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Not long ago, Notion implemented the ability for their databases to create different kinds of Charts based on them.

When the Obsidian team started implementing the databases, I thought about writing a Feature Request for developers to consider adding the ability to create different Charts, including Timeline, based on the databases, but I never did.
I didn’t do it because the Feature Requests seemed too big to request, and the developers themselves are probably well aware of this feature in Notion, and will implement it if they see fit.

Anyway, the possibility to create different Charts, including Timeline, is missing for me too.
On the one hand I need a kind of requested “Timeline View”, and on the other hand I also want to be able to create Charts freely - that is, not as a visualization of existing notes. Now I have to use either Krita or draw,io for this, but unfortunately, for example, I can’t specify the links to notes in them…
The end result could be a replacement for Mermaid, only more visually appealing and user friendly.

But now I noticed that the Feature Request regarding Hand-Written Notes support has a “Valuable” tag on it, so I’ll just wait for that feature to be implemented, and draw all my Charts by hand =)

Anyway, +1!

Related: Organizing all notes in the graph as a timeline?

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What is the cluster-view? A plugin? A feature of another app?

What makes it a timeline? Is it sorted by when files last changed?

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The floating nodes window. That thing.
The timeline, I think, should be something you organize yourself. So, if you need to put certain notes and other things in a particular order. Or, maybe you can just organize them by when they were made. But I’d rather be able to organize them manually, too.