Past Notes

Obsidian plugin that displays past daily notes as cards at the bottom of your current daily note.

Features

• Past note cards — Automatically shows cards for daily notes from configurable time periods (default: 1 year ago, 6 months ago, 1 month ago)
• Random notes — Optionally displays random past daily notes for serendipitous rediscovery
• Content preview — Each card shows a clean text preview of the note (markdown syntax stripped)
• Configurable — Add/remove periods, adjust card size, toggle previews
• Click to navigate — Click any card to jump to that past note
• Theme-aware — Works with both light and dark themes

Installation

Manual Installation

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release
2. Create a folder your-vault/.obsidian/plugins/past-notes/
3. Copy the downloaded files into the folder
4. Restart Obsidian and enable the plugin in Settings → Community plugins

Settings

Setting	Description	Default
Daily Notes Folder	Folder where daily notes are stored	(empty = vault root)
Card Width	Width of each card (px)	200
Card Height	Max height of each card (px)	150
Show Preview	Display content preview in cards	true
Preview Lines	Number of preview lines	4

Periods

Add, remove, or toggle display periods:

• Relative periods — e.g., "1 year ago", "6 months ago", "2 weeks ago"
• Random — Shows a random past daily note

Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Development (watch mode)
npm run dev

# Run tests
npm test

# Build for production
npm run build

Testing

The plugin is built with TDD (Test-Driven Development). Run the full test suite:

npm test           # Run all tests
npm run test:watch # Watch mode
npm run test:coverage # With coverage report

License

MIT