Obsidian Markline

This is fork of Markline, show timeline view from markdown in Obsidian editor.

Feature

• Show timeline view in Obsidian Editor with markline code blockquote.
• Add markline code blockquote by command.

Install

Community plugins:

Click link https://obsidian.md/plugins?id=markline to install.

or:

1. Menu: Obsidian -> Perferences...
2. If "Restricted mode" is off, click "Turn on community plugins" button.
3. Click "Browser" button.
4. Search "Markline".
5. Open and click "Install" -> "Enable" button.

Manual installation:

1. Unzip the latest release into your <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/markline folder.
2. Reload Obsidian.app
3. Enable the plugin in the settings of community plugins section.

You can also use the BRAT plugin to install the latest release.

Examples

```markline
# My Documnet Title

## group name (optional)

- 2023 A full year event.
  - 2023-01~2023-03 subevent
  - 2023-05~2023-08 subevent 2
- 2023-01 month event name.
- 2023-01-02 event name with [link](https://github.com/hotoo/obsidian-markline).

## another group

- 2013 another list item.
- 2013-05-05 yet another list item.
```‌

Markdown

Markdown is so easy, and so powerful, you can use it to build the timeline graph.

Markline use subsets of markdown now:

Dates

* 1986 for year.
* 1986/06 for month.
* 1986/06/28 is a good day.
* 1986-06-28 you also can use this date format.

Date Ranges

* 2012~2014 year to year.
* 2012~2014/02 year to year.
* 1986/06/28~1986/08/14 from date to another date.
* 2012~ year to now.

Header

# title

## h2 group name
### h3 group name
#### h4 group name
##### h5 group name
###### h6 group name

Meta

Between title and group or lines, we can set meta data in markdown by key-value pair.

# title

- age: show
- date: 2014/01/01
- author: @hotoo
- mention: https://twitter.com/{@mention}

----

# Group 1

* 2014 line 1.

Now we support meta data:

• age: show age after year in top header line. default is hide, if want show, set:

  - age: show

• mention: set mention enable, and mention base url. default mention is disable.

  # @Mention Demo
  
  - mention: https://github.com/{@mention}
  
  ----
  
  - 2014 @hotoo mention @lizzie

  {@mention} is placeholder for mention name.

• hashtag and colors: direct use #FF0000 or hashtag custom tags styles.

  # #HashTag Demo
  
  - tags:
    - #tag-name: background-color, text-color
    - #life: yellow, #f00
    - #job: rgb(255,255,255), rgba(255,0,0,0.5)
    - #some-tag: red
  
  ----
  
  - 2014 this is my #life
  - 2023 this line color is red #f00
  
  ## Group #F00
  - 2023 all events in this group is red.
  - 2023 red line.
  
  ## Group #F00 #0F0
  - 2023 all events in this group is red bar and green text.
  - 2023 red bar and green text.

following meta data support come soon.

• theme: set different theme, by build-in theme name, or theme css file url.

  - theme: light
  - theme: http://www.example.com/theme.css

• year-length: set date column width.

• date-type: show date type by year, month, or date

• author: set author information.

List

* 2014 list item
  * 2014/01 sub list item

- 2014 another list item
  - 2014/01 another sub list item

Horizontal

for anonymous group.

* 2014 line 1

----

* 2015 line 2

Link

* 2014 this is a [link](url)
* 2014 this is a [[inner link]]

Image

* 2014 this is an image: ![alt](image-url)
* 2014 this is an internal image: ![[image file]]

Strong

* 2014 this is **strong** text.
* 2014 this is __another strong__ text.

Emphasized

* 2014 this is _emphasized_ text.
* 2014 this is *another emphasized* text.

Delete

* 2014 this is ~delete~ text.
* 2014 this is ~~another delete~~ text.

Want more markdown syntax feature? make issues, fork and pull request.

References

• Markdown Syntax