Create a beautiful timeline view of your tasks across your notes. Organize and visualize your tasks based on dates and tags with an interactive timeline that supports custom colors, grouping, and auto-refresh.
- Timeline View: Visualize tasks sorted by date and grouped by tag.
- Calendar View: See tasks in a monthly calendar format for better date-based planning.
- Custom Date Parsing: Parse dates using a configurable format (default:
DD-MMM-YYYY). - Task Grouping: Automatically groups tasks by tag with expandable/collapsible groups.
- Color Customization: Use auto-generated or custom colors for tag groups.
- Overdue and Reminder Indicators: Display task status (Today, Tomorrow, Overdue, or number of days left).
- File Navigation: Click a task to open its source file quickly.
- Auto-Refresh: Timeline updates regularly as your notes change.
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Formatting Tasks
Add tasks to your notes using the format:
Task description -> DD-MMM-YYYY #TagExamples:
Write plugin documentation -> 15-Oct-2023 #Work Submit report -> 10-Oct-2023 #Finance Schedule team meeting -> 20-Oct-2023 #Work #Important
The task format requires:
- A description
- An arrow
->followed by a date - Tags with
#prefix
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Timeline Interaction
When viewing your timeline, you can:
Hotkeys & Actions:
Hotkey Action Click on a task Open the source file Click on a tag header Expand/Collapse the tag group Drag a tag header Reorder tag groups Right-click on a tag header Choose a custom tag color
- Open Settings > Community plugins
- Make sure Safe mode is off
- Click Browse community plugins
- Search for Task Timeline
- Click Install
- Close the plugins window and enable Task Timeline
This plugin is provided for free. If you like it or want to support ongoing development, feel free to contribute or donate:
This plugin is still experimental. Please make backups of your notes before using, as bugs might lead to unexpected behavior.
Feel free to file issues or contribute on GitHub:

