Timestamp Picker for Obsidian

A plugin that makes inline timestamps in your notes clickable, opening a date and time picker modal to easily edit them.

Features

• Click to edit — Any timestamp matching the pattern YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm becomes clickable
• Date + Time picker — Opens a modal with native date and time inputs
• Live Preview support — Works in both Live Preview and Reading view
• Configurable pattern — Customise the regex pattern to match your timestamp format
• Frontmatter aware — Timestamps in frontmatter are ignored
• Mobile friendly — Works on both desktop and mobile

Demo

In any note, write a timestamp like 2025-01-15 09:30 and it will appear as a clickable link. Click it to open the picker modal and change the date/time.

Installation

From Community Plugins

1. Open Settings → Community plugins
2. Search for "Timestamp Picker"
3. Click Install, then Enable

Manual Installation

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release
2. Create a folder timestamp-picker in your vault's .obsidian/plugins/ directory
3. Copy the downloaded files into it
4. Enable the plugin in Settings → Community plugins

Configuration

Go to Settings → Timestamp Picker to customise:

• Timestamp pattern — The regex pattern used to detect timestamps (default: \d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2})

Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build
npm run build

# Build with watch mode
npm run dev

License

MIT