I have been looking for a way to document events in a timeline kind of sort, but haven't able to figure out the best way to do it until now. I came across Tim Urban's article "Your Life in Weeks" which is exactly what I am looking for, so I developed a plugin for it.
While it is specifically developed to document one's life, you can also use it to document the "life" of a project.
The plugin should be available for download soon. You can check usages in the GitHub repository.
Cool plugin! I was actually looking for something like this a few weeks ago so great timing. Would it be possible to mark a range of dates? e.g. mark the time ranges I was in college, grad school, etc. Also, can you add a layout option to make each row one year? Maybe something like this.
I tried to create something similiar in Python, but it turned out uglym unusable and I didn't have the time to redesign my code.
Thank you for this!
Would it be possible to mark a range of dates?
This feature is in my backlog and would be implemented soon.
can you add a layout option to make each row one year?
I personally don't like this look, and it is very annoying to implement correctly with joplin as it is not responsive, so it is unlikely that it will be implemented.
Fixed minor bugs and add support for "className", so you can group events into types
Fair enough. Actually, the main reason I want this is so I can easily see each week my birthday is in. Another way to do this without changing the layout would be to have an option to highlight the weeks your birthday is in. It would be the "Highlight every year" option in the implementation you noted as a reference. The existing ages: option would be to emphasize certain ages. Would this be possible?
Or if that is too complicated would it be possible to do a range for the ages e.g. ages: [1:80] That way I wouldn't have to type every age individually.
Edit: Actually even better would be able to do something like ages: [1:5:80] So it would be ages 1 to 80 with steps of 5 e.g. 1, 5, 10, 15, etc
With className would it be possible to specify an icon or is that for colors only? e.g.
<style>
.graduation { icon:🎓 !important; background-color:transparent !important; }
</style>
You don't need new features to do this, you just need to manually add "New Year Event" and "Birthday Event" for every year, then it will be all set. It may sound likes a lot, but just use a spreadsheet or something. The event system is bare bone but extremely flexible.
Similarly, this may sounds like a good idea at first, but it is very restrictive because age is not linear. Some age is simply more important than other (18,21,etc.) and it is not like you're going to live forever. Here some pre-prepared parameters, just paste it to your note.
ages: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99]
ages: [0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100]
No, you cannot specify icon with className, it is just a css class. There is css trick to have the same icon using class, but I will not explain it as I don't think it is a good idea.
Thanks for all your hard work and your effort to bring your personal projects to completion so they are usable by others. It's a great service to the community.
This will work fine. Thanks!
Seconded. Really appreciate the plugins you've made!
I can't seem to add icons using the markdown list of emoji markups? What's the trick?
This plugin does not support markdown. You need to copy unicode emoji from other sources.
Got it. Thank you for the reply. I will use the Windows+. keyboard shortcut to find emojis.
What a lovely and great idea! Thanks for that. It's awesome!
I love the period addition. I would like to suggest another option : having it by day and not by week. I imagine a usecase for project management. One could use your plugin to tell the tale of a trip day by day or of an important project? That person would not list all of the day of a life, but from the starting date of the project and the end. I would use that if you could add the option of having square being a day.
But it's just a suggeston. I love your plugin 
Thanks again for the work!
Fixed some silly visual date string bug
That would be a useful plugin, but its implementation is not as simple as switching from week to day (but it is not too difficult either). As I am quite content with current week-based timeline, it is unlikely I will implement day-based feature anytime soon.
Maybe someone else can implement activity history similar to Gihub. I actually looked for such plugin before I decided to implement this one.
I clearly understand. It was just a thought I had using your plugin. Using it a lot Thanks again for the work
This has been a great addition! However, I'm wondering how you deal with multiday events? For example lets say I have a very memorable 5 day road trip that I want to add. It seems better suited as an event rather than a period but at the same time, creating an event for each day seems a bit unwieldy.
