Usage
Setting Up a Life Tracker View
Create a Base
- Create a new Base in your vault (or use an existing one)
- Add property columns for the data you want to track
- Ensure your notes have frontmatter properties matching these columns
Switch to Life Tracker View
- Open your Base
- Click the view selector (dropdown)
- Choose Life Tracker
- The view displays a grid of visualization cards
Configure Visualizations
Each property appears as a card. Unconfigured properties show a selection interface:
- Click on an unconfigured card
- Choose a visualization type from the grid
- The visualization renders with your data
View Controls
Time Granularity
Control how data is grouped over time:
- Daily: One data point per day
- Weekly: Aggregated by week
- Monthly: Aggregated by month
- Quarterly: Aggregated by quarter
- Yearly: Aggregated by year
Time Frame
Filter visualizations to show specific date ranges:
| Time Frame | Description |
|---|---|
| All time | All available data |
| Last 7 days | Previous 7 days |
| Last 30 days | Previous 30 days |
| Last 90 days | Previous 90 days |
| Last 365 days | Previous year |
| This week | Current week |
| This month | Current month |
| This quarter | Current quarter |
| This year | Current year |
| Last week | Previous week |
| Last month | Previous month |
| Last quarter | Previous quarter |
| Last year | Previous year |
Grid Layout
Adjust the number of columns (1-6) to control card density.
Animation Controls
- Play/Pause: Control chart animations
- Duration: Set in plugin settings (default: 3000ms)
Context Menu
Right-click any visualization card to access:
- Change visualization: Switch to a different chart type
- Configure scale: Set min/max values (auto-detect or presets)
- Configure color scheme: Choose from 5 color palettes
- Reference line: Add a horizontal target line
- Add visualization: Create another visualization for the same property
- Remove visualization: Delete this visualization (if multiple exist)
- Maximize: Expand to full view
- Reset: Clear configuration and return to selection
Maximize Mode
Click the maximize icon or use the context menu to expand any visualization:
- View details in full screen
- Press Escape to exit
- All other cards are hidden while maximized
Interactivity
Click to Navigate
Click on chart elements (bars, points, areas) to open the source note for that data point.
Tooltips
Hover over chart elements to see detailed information:
- Property name and value
- Date of the data point
- Source file name
Date Anchoring
The plugin determines dates for entries using this priority:
- Filename pattern: YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-Www, YYYY-MM, YYYY-Qq
- Date anchor property: Configured in view settings
- File metadata: Creation or modification time
Multiple Visualizations
You can add multiple visualization cards for the same property:
- Right-click an existing visualization
- Select Add visualization
- A new card appears with copied settings
- Configure each card independently
This lets you compare different views of the same data (e.g., heatmap vs line chart).