Timeline: The powerful idea of temporal representation in obsidian

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@CawlinTeffid

It would be great to have a description of your system in the Share & Showcase category

There you go

Until a better timeline shows up

In a thread discussing ideas for a future graphical timeline plugin, I was asked if I could share the event-based timeline setup I use for historic research and writing. The following is obviously a work in progress and I add stuff whenever it is needed, but so far it has proved to be very useful. It lacks graphical spans or period lines, but it does what I need it to do. It has the advantage of using only the Dataview plugin which, imho, could be the basis for any future timeline plugin since i…