Life in Weeks – Obsidian Plugin

A "Life in Weeks" grid rendered over the weekly and daily notes in your vault. Each cell is one week of your life – click it to open or create the matching note. Great for journaling and for tracking separate timelines (children, pets, relationships, jobs …) side by side.

• Click a cell to open its note, long-press for the day view
• Set weekly colors and titles
• Multi-select to edit many weeks at once
• Add tabs for separate grids, each with its own legend

Installation

1. Open Settings → Community plugins and turn off restricted mode if needed
2. Browse → search for "Life in Weeks"
3. Install → Enable
4. Click the calendar icon in the left sidebar

Manual install (fallback)

1. Download main.js, manifest.json and styles.css from the latest release
2. Copy them into <your-vault>/.obsidian/plugins/lifeweeks/
3. Settings → Community plugins → Reload, then enable Life in Weeks

First start

A setup screen asks for:

• Birth date (YYYY-MM-DD)
• Life expectancy in years (number of grid rows, default 90)
• Base folder in your vault (default Bibliothek/Diary) – where Weekly basis/ and Daily basis/ live

Tabs are auto-detected from the subfolders of Weekly basis/ – no extra configuration needed.

Usage

Action	Cell with note	Cell without note
Short click	Opens the note	Quick-Edit (color / title / create)
Right-click	Quick-Edit	Quick-Edit
Long-press (½ s)	Day view (Mon–Sun) + weekly palette	Day view + weekly palette

• Multi-select: the ⊞ button or 📅 Date range, then drag across cells and edit them together (empty input moves the selected notes to the trash).
• Zoom: slider, Ctrl+wheel, or pinch on mobile – always centered on the current week. A button next to the slider cycles fit-width → fit-height → 1:1.
• Tabs: + in the tab bar creates a folder under Weekly basis/; ⚙ gives a tab its own timeline.
• Language: follows the Obsidian UI language (DE/EN); date formats adapt to your locale.
• Open mode: Settings → "Open notes in" – Automatic / Split right / Main tab bar.

Data structure

Notes are plain Markdown, so the data stays usable outside the plugin.

{base folder}/                 # default: Bibliothek/Diary
├─ Weekly basis/
│  ├─ {Tab}/                   # tab name = folder name
│  │  └─ 2026-04-06-W14 Vacation.md
│  └─ …
└─ Daily basis/                # 2026-04-14.md

File names: yyyy-mm-dd-Www[ Title].md (weekly), yyyy-mm-dd[ Title].md (daily). Frontmatter is edited via processFrontMatter(), so foreign keys (date, time, tags …) are never touched.

---
week: "Jahr 1, Woche 14"
dates: "06.04.2026 – 12.04.2026"
color: "#c97c3a"
title: "Vacation"
---

Markdown content here…

The YAML labels (week, dates) are in German for historical reasons. The UI itself is fully translated.

Mobile

Same build runs on phone and desktop (isDesktopOnly: false). Long-press, pinch zoom and Quick-Edit work via pointer events.

License

MIT – see LICENSE.