Day Echo

Day Echo

Gather all your daily notes into one vertical timeline view.

Day Echo is an Obsidian plugin that turns your scattered daily notes into a single, scrollable timeline — so you can scan months and years of journaling at a glance, reopen any day in a click, and keep writing without losing the thread.

Features

Vertical timeline

Collects every daily note in your diary folder into one continuous, two-column timeline:

• A left-hand axis marks each section (month or year), with a running entry count.
• Cards flow newest-first (or oldest-first) and are balanced across two columns.
• A sticky label pins the current section to the top as you scroll, and a back-to-top button slides in once you've scrolled past one full screen.
• The top of the timeline shows a small "My Journey" header with your total entry count.

Open it from the calendar ribbon icon on the left, or via the command palette: Open Day Echo timeline.

Rich cards

Each day is rendered as a preview card:

• A text snippet of the note (frontmatter, code, and images stripped out).
• Lazy-loaded image thumbnails in a stacked, polaroid style — full-size images decode off the critical path so scrolling stays smooth.
• The note's tags (excluding the #daily marker).

Click a card to open the full day's note in a modal popup; click the date label to open the note in the editor.

Month / Year zoom

A floating segmented control in the bottom-right corner switches between month and year aggregation:

• Click a segment, or hold Ctrl / Cmd / Alt and scroll the wheel to zoom in or out.
• Zooming plays a smooth crossfade and keeps the section under your cursor anchored in place.
• In year view, only representative entries are shown per year, with a "show more" card to expand the rest.

Plain wheel scrolling is replaced by an eased, speed-capped glide for a calmer reading feel. (Both effects respect your system's reduce motion setting.)

Today shortcut

When viewing newest-first, the top of the timeline always reflects today:

• If today's note already exists, it appears as a highlighted card under a "today" marker.
• If it doesn't, a "start today's diary" card creates and opens the note for you.

Daily-note navigation bar

When you open any date-named daily note (YYYY-MM-DD), Day Echo injects a previous / next bar at the bottom of the note, so you can step through adjacent days without leaving the editor. This can be toggled off in settings.

Energy & mood block

Drop an echo-interaction code block into any note to rate a day's energy and mood on a 1–5 scale. Saving writes the scores into that day's daily-note frontmatter (energy / mood):

```echo-interaction
date: yesterday
```

date accepts yesterday (default), today, or an explicit YYYY-MM-DD.

The timeline refreshes automatically whenever notes in the diary folder are created, modified, renamed, or deleted.

Settings

Day Echo treats notes named YYYY-MM-DD.md inside the daily folder as diary entries.

Installation

From within Obsidian (once published)

1. Open Settings → Community plugins and disable Restricted Mode.
2. Click Browse, search for Day Echo, and install it.
3. Enable the plugin.

Manual

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release.
2. Copy them into <your-vault>/.obsidian/plugins/day-echo/.
3. Reload Obsidian and enable Day Echo in Settings → Community plugins.

Requires Obsidian 1.5.7 or newer. Works on both desktop and mobile.

Development

pnpm install
pnpm dev      # watch + rebuild
pnpm build    # type-check + production build
pnpm test     # run the unit tests (vitest)

License

MIT