Upcoming Birthdays

Obsidian Upcoming Birthdays

A plugin for Obsidian that tracks and displays upcoming birthdays from your notes.

Features

• 📅 Automatically finds notes with a date-of-birth property in their frontmatter
• 🎂 Shows upcoming birthdays with age calculation
• 🎉 Highlights birthdays happening today or soon
• ⚙️ Customizable settings for property name and look-ahead period
• 📍 Click on names to open the corresponding note

Usage

Adding Birthdays to Your Notes

Add a date-of-birth property to the frontmatter of any note:

---
date-of-birth: 1990-05-15
---

# John Doe

Contact information and other details...

Viewing Birthdays

Use the command palette (Ctrl/Cmd + P) and search for "Open Birthday View"

The birthday view will appear in the right sidebar showing:

• Birthdays happening today (highlighted)
• Upcoming birthdays within your configured range
• How many days until each birthday
• The age the person will turn

Settings

• Date of Birth Property: The frontmatter property name to look for (default: date-of-birth)
• Days to Look Ahead: How many days in advance to show birthdays (default: 30)

Installation

For Development

1. Clone this repository into your vault's .obsidian/plugins/ folder:

   cd /path/to/vault/.obsidian/plugins
   git clone https://github.com/nithinbekal/obsidian-upcoming-birthdays.git
   

2. Install dependencies:

   cd obsidian-upcoming-birthdays
   npm install
   

3. Build the plugin:

   npm run build
   

4. Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin in Settings → Community Plugins

For Development with Auto-Reload

Run in development mode with auto-rebuild:

npm run dev

Date Formats

The plugin accepts any standard date format that JavaScript can parse:

• 1990-05-15 (ISO format, recommended)
• 1990/05/15
• May 15, 1990
• 15 May 1990

License

MIT