History Today

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by Yaob1990

View and review your historical notes from this day across previous years

★ 8 stars↓ 606 downloadsUpdated 1y agoMIT
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History-today

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An Obsidian plugin that shows "Today in History" events.

Features

  • Get notes about historical events that happened on this day
  • Configurable folder filtering

Installation

  1. Open Settings in Obsidian
  2. Navigate to Third-party plugins
  3. Disable Safe mode
  4. Click Browse and search for "History Today"
  5. Click Install

Usage

  1. After installation, a new icon will appear in the left sidebar
  2. Click the icon to view historical events for today
  3. In plugin settings, you can:
    • Set display language
    • Configure folder filtering (all folders by default)
  4. The plugin prioritizes the date created field in Metadata, and falls back to the ctime field if not available

Contributing

Pull requests and issues are welcome.

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