Life Tracker
Capture and visualize the data that matters in your life. This Obsidian plugin adds custom Base View types that transform your tracked data into beautiful visualizations.
Key Features
- 12 Visualization Types: Heatmap, Line, Bar, Area, Pie, Doughnut, Radar, Polar Area, Scatter, Bubble, Tag Cloud, Timeline
- Overlay Charts: Combine multiple properties on a single chart to visualize correlations
- Property Capture: Quick dialog to fill properties with carousel navigation and batch processing
- Grid View: Card-based editing interface for managing properties across multiple notes
- Customization: Per-view settings, time frames, color schemes, scales, and reference lines
- Interactive Elements: Click chart elements to open source notes, hover for detailed tooltips
Quick Start
- Install the plugin from Obsidian Community Plugins
- Create a Base in your vault
- Open the Base and add property columns you want to track
- Click the view selector and choose Life Tracker
- Click on unconfigured property cards to choose a visualization type
Views
Life Tracker View
A grid-based dashboard showing visualizations for each property in your Base. Configure time granularity, date ranges, and individual visualization settings.
Life Tracking Grid
A card-based editing interface for quickly filling in property values across multiple notes. Ideal for batch data entry.
About
Created by Sébastien Dubois.
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