Obsidian Plugin Journal Review

This is a plugin helping you "review" your daily notes on their anniversaries.

It pulls from all your daily notes (also using setting from the Periodic Notes plugin if present) and present notes from the same day in previous time spans in a view, that can be activated via ribbon button or command palette.

Installation

1. Find the under "Journal Review" in the community plugins list in Obsidian
2. Click "Install" and "Enable"
3. Configure "Options" to your liking

Usage

Open the "On this day" view via the ribbon icon or the command palette, and it will display excerpts from previous daily notes. The view will refresh when a new daily note is created or around midnight to reflect the changes.

Release

1. npm run version to update necessary manifest files
2. Push a new tag to GitHub with the corresponding version number
3. This automatically triggers a GitHub action that builds the plugin, creates a release and uploads the artifacts to the release

Options

Time Spans

Time spans to review, can be defined via three values: number, unit and recurring, meaning how many times of the given unit to look back to, either once or recurring.

Default (as configured via UI elements):

[
	{ number: 1, unit: Unit.month, recurring: false },
	{ number: 6, unit: Unit.month, recurring: false },
	{ number: 1, unit: Unit.year, recurring: true },
];

Show Note Title with previews

Render the note title above the preview text, when showing note previews.

Humanize Time Spans

Use the 'humanization' feature from moment.js, when rendering the time spans titles.

Use Obsidian callouts for note previews

Use callouts to render note previews, using their styles based on current theme.

Use quote element for note previews

Format note previews using the HTML quote element

Lookup Margin

The number of days to include before and after the date being checked

Default: 0

Preview Length

Length of the preview text to show for each note

Default: 200

Open in new pane

Open the notes in a new pane/tab by default

Use notifications

Use notifications (inside Obsidian) to let you know, when there are new journal entries to review. This will happen when Obsidian is focused and it's a new day.

Show Random Daily Note

Enable/disable the random daily note feature.

Random Note Position

Choose whether to show the random daily note on top or bottom.