TinyChart Plugin

Dead simple ASCII charts for Obsidian.

Supported Charts

• ✅ Horizontal bar
• 🗓️ Vertical bar
• 🗓️ Line

Installation

1. Within Obsidian, go to "Settings" -> "Community plugins" -> "Browse"
2. Search for "TinyChart"
3. Install and enable the plugin

Usage

Configure charts globally using the settings tab:

• Fill and empty characters
• Optional prefix and suffix characters
• Chart length
• Enable/disable and align value labels
• Render chart in code block or paragraph format

Open the command palette in Obsidian Ctrl + P and search for TinyChart to insert an example chart block.

```tinychart
Apples, 100
Bananas, 75
Oranges, 150
Grapes, 25
Pineapples, 10
Watermelons, 50
Strawberries, 150
Blueberries, 30
Raspberries, 15
Mangoes, 150
```

Apples         █████████████------- 100
Bananas        ██████████----------  75
Oranges        ████████████████████ 150
Grapes         ███-----------------  25
Pineapples     █-------------------  10
Watermelons    ██████--------------  50
Strawberries   ████████████████████ 150
Blueberries    ████----------------  30
Raspberries    ██------------------  15
Mangoes        ████████████████████ 150

Use with dataview

You can also use dataview to dynamically generate charts, that means to create an ascii chart that live updates based on changes in your vault.

The following example takes all notes in sourceFolder, displays a frequency distribution for the yamlField (in this example the publication year):

```dataviewjs
// CONFIG
const sourceFolder = "Data/articles"
const yamlField = "year";
//--------------------------------------------------
const all = dv.pages(`"${sourceFolder}"`)
    .groupBy(p => p.file.frontmatter[yamlField])
    .values // dv-array to regular array
    .map(p => `${p.key},${p.rows.length}`)
    .reverse()
dv.header(3, `Items in "${sourceFolder}" by "${yamlField}"`)
dv.span(["~~~tinychart", ...all, "~~~"].join("\n"))
```

This results in the following, live-updating chart:

Items in "Data/articles" by "year"
2024   ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 102
2023   ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬              62
2022   ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬                       32
2021   ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬             66
2020   ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬               59
2019   ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬                 51
2018   ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬                   45
2017   ▬▬▬▬▬                           20
2016   ▬▬▬▬▬                           17

Support

This plugin is completely free and open source. If you really like it, I'd love to hear about how you're using it.