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

  1. Install the plugin from Obsidian Community Plugins
  2. Create a Base in your vault
  3. Open the Base and add property columns you want to track
  4. Click the view selector and choose Life Tracker
  5. 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.

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Created by Sébastien Dubois.

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