Obsidian plugins with #data-visualization#

The Charted Roots plugin turns a vault into a genealogy and worldbuilding workspace built around linked notes. It imports GEDCOM, GEDCOM X, Gramps XML and CSV data, keeps relationships in sync across notes and provides duplicate cleanup, schema validation and data quality checks. The plugin can open an interactive family chart for editing and exploration, generate canvas based trees with multiple layouts and produce printable tree charts in several export formats. It also adds map views, custom image maps, timeline style note content, evidence and source tracking, statistics, calendar views and a book builder for compiling reports and notes into one document. Universe and organization entities extend the same model to fictional settings.

The Charts View plugin enables users to create a wide variety of interactive data visualizations within Obsidian. It supports multiple chart types, including bar, pie, radar, treemap, word cloud, dual-axis, and organization tree graphs. Users can generate charts from CSV files, internal note data, or Dataview queries. The plugin provides a chart wizard for easy configuration and customization of chart elements, such as colors, labels, and tooltips. With options for importing CSV files, combining multiple datasets, and enabling search interactions within charts, users can create dynamic and insightful visualizations. Charts View also integrates seamlessly with the Dataview plugin, allowing users to visualize note data directly. This plugin is ideal for those looking to transform their notes into visually appealing and interactive data dashboards within Obsidian.

The Datacore plugin is a modern reimagining of Dataview, designed to deliver faster queries, smoother rendering, and fully interactive views. It introduces a React-based JavaScript API with stateful, flicker-free updates and a more efficient query system. Instead of static results, Datacore offers WYSIWYG table views that can be edited directly, making data handling closer to the experience of tools like Notion or Airtable. It also enhances task management with richer metadata handling, enables live editing of values, and supports embeds for Markdown, images, and videos within views. Another standout feature is its ability to query not just pages but also sections and blocks, including attachments and PDFs. This makes it highly flexible for users managing structured knowledge across large vaults while benefiting from a streamlined interface and improved performance.

The Projects Plus plugin turns Markdown notes into project records while keeping their fields in YAML properties. It provides table, board, calendar and gallery views for comparing records, arranging draggable cards, browsing dated events and scanning notes by cover image. Dashboards combine these views with configurable blocks, charts and metrics. Projects can draw notes from folders, tags, built in filtered queries or Dataview. Relations support rollups and reverse links, while charts can compare several series, data from another project and a second axis. Editing a writable field updates the underlying note. The plugin also includes demo projects with linked data and stores project and view settings in the vault. It makes no network requests and supports desktop and mobile on Obsidian 1.8.7 or newer.

The Life Tracker plugin adds a dedicated Base view for tracking frontmatter data across notes and turning it into charts, heatmaps, timelines and other visual summaries. It supports numeric, text, checkbox, date, list, tag and file metadata based properties, then lets you capture values through a dialog, batch entry flow or grid view with auto save and mobile friendly controls. Visualisations can be customised with time granularity, overlays, colour schemes, reference lines, moving averages, running totals and per view layouts. The plugin also handles custom filename date patterns, property presets and note filtering rules, so tracked data can come from daily notes or other structured files without changing how those notes are named.

The Mappy plugin turns Markdown notes built from H2 headings and bullet lists into editable mind maps without introducing a separate file format or database. It provides standard map, timeline, hierarchy and balanced layouts, with changes to nodes written back to the source note. Nodes can be added, edited, reordered, reparented, collapsed and linked to notes, attachments or external pages. Maps can appear beside Markdown, open as read only embeds in other notes and export to SVG or PNG. It also supports free topics, map branches drawn from other notes and insertion into Excalidraw drawings. The plugin is desktop only, remains in beta and has been verified primarily on macOS with Obsidian 1.14, while Windows, Linux and non Japanese input methods remain untested.

The Timeline plugin enables users to create visually appealing timelines in their Obsidian notes, enhancing the way chronological or event-based information is presented. It supports two tagging formats: simple `timeline` for quick entries and `timeline-labeled` for more structured events with labels such as date, title, and content. Users can customize the timeline's appearance with predefined classes for line thickness, body spacing, and active colors, which seamlessly integrate with Obsidian's theme. The plugin provides an intuitive way to organize and display historical data, project milestones, or any chronological narrative directly within notes.

The Xyl's Starmap plugin creates interactive star system maps from YAML blocks inside notes. Maps can connect notes and represent planets, moons, rings, asteroid belts and objects placed within those belts. Each mapped object can carry a label, while colours and object sizes can be customised. Ring thickness and 3D rotation are configurable as well. Positioning uses percentages so planets keep the same relative location when a map's width or height changes. A command inserts a preformatted Starmap template with comments, and another version provides one instance of every object without comments. The map renders when the cursor is outside the YAML code block or when the note is shown in reading mode.

The Barcode Generator plugin enables users to create and display barcodes within Obsidian notes using various barcode types. It supports customization of barcode formats, including Code 128, EAN, UPC, and more, with options to modify settings such as dimensions and colors. Barcodes can be generated through simple Markdown code blocks, allowing seamless integration into notes. This plugin is ideal for users who need barcodes for labeling, inventory management, or other organizational purposes directly within their Obsidian workflows.

The Siteswap plugin allows you to visualize juggling patterns using the Siteswap notation. With this plugin, you can render detailed animations of your favorite juggling sequences, complete with customizable settings for pattern, hands, colors, and more. Whether you're a seasoned juggler or just starting out, this plugin provides an immersive way to explore and experiment with different patterns and techniques.

The Prism plugin renders interactive charts, diagrams, dashboards and formulas inside notes through sandboxed HTML and JavaScript blocks. YAML specifications can generate charts directly from Markdown tables, CSV files or note properties without writing code. Bundled libraries include Chart.js, D3, Mermaid, three.js and KaTeX, with offline rendering and colours that follow the vault's theme. Blocks can query frontmatter, tasks and links across the vault, share slider values or respond to scrolling. Widgets can update their own note after permission is granted. A render command gives AI agents errors with note line numbers and PNG snapshots so they can check their output. Charts also work in Bases, while export options include PNG, SVG and static images for publishing. Network access is disabled by default and requires explicit configuration. Command line rendering requires the desktop app.

The ReactiveNotes plugin lets you embed interactive React components directly into your notes, transforming them into dynamic and programmable documents. It supports full React 18 features including hooks, state management, lifecycle handling, and integration with Obsidian's file system and theme. Users can persist state in frontmatter, render charts with libraries like Recharts or Lightweight Charts, manipulate canvas elements, and even import libraries from CDN. Each note can maintain its own independent state, enabling reusable component templates. This plugin is ideal for developers, data analysts, and tinkerers looking to combine note-taking with interactivity, custom tooling, or rich visualizations.

The bytefield plugin allows users to create visual byte-field diagrams directly within their notes using simple code blocks. These diagrams are useful for illustrating data layouts in structured formats like network packets or binary files, with each field mapped to a specific byte length. Users can define fields with names and sizes, specify starting offsets, add unnamed padding bytes, and even allow fields to wrap across rows if they exceed available space. It's a lightweight and practical tool for developers, reverse engineers, or protocol designers who need to represent low-level data structures in a clear, visual format.

The Sankey plugin enables users to create Sankey diagrams directly within Obsidian using simple YAML-based syntax. These diagrams visually represent flows between different entities, making it useful for analyzing processes, energy transfers, financial transactions, or hierarchical structures. Users can define links between nodes, specify values for each connection, and customize node colors for better visualization. If node definitions are incomplete, the plugin automatically infers missing nodes based on link data.

The Vega Visualizations plugin allows users to create customizable data visualizations within Obsidian using Vega or Vega-Lite specifications written in JSON format. The plugin supports a variety of charts and plots, such as bar charts and line charts, which are rendered directly within Obsidian notes. With this plugin, you can easily embed complex visualizations into your notes by simply adding a code block with the appropriate specification. It's ideal for users who need to visualize data in a flexible, interactive manner without leaving the note-taking environment.

The SQLSeal Charts plugin extends SQLSeal by enabling data visualization through a variety of chart types. It integrates with ECharts, allowing users to transform SQL query results into line, bar, pie, scatter, and heatmap charts within Obsidian. By leveraging SQLSeal's querying capabilities, users can structure and manipulate data before displaying it graphically. The plugin provides built-in functions to process and refine datasets, making it suitable for users who want to analyze structured information directly in their notes.

The Plotly plugin allows users to embed interactive Plotly charts into Obsidian notes for data visualization. It supports creating static charts with YAML or JSON payloads directly within markdown blocks using a `plotly` block. Advanced users can leverage the DataViewJS block for JavaScript-based charts, enabling dynamic visualizations and integration with note data through the DataView API. This plugin is ideal for users who want to visualize data effectively while working within the Obsidian environment, offering flexibility for both static and dynamic charting needs.

The QueryDash plugin transforms data management in Obsidian by introducing multi-view displays like tables, lists, and timelines built on top of Dataview queries. It supports SQL-style syntax, enabling powerful searches, filtering, aggregation, and pagination of large datasets. Designed to resemble a lightweight Notion-like dashboard, QueryDash offers dynamic visualization options to better organize notes, tasks, and knowledge.

The Bases Timeline View plugin plots notes as timeline items using dates and content from frontmatter, with custom field mappings when vault properties use different names. It groups entries by note fields in Obsidian 1.10 or later and can render notes as regular items, time span backgrounds or vertical markers. Marker, background and item roles follow a fixed priority when conditions overlap. Timeline items support built in hover previews, CSS classes and data attributes for styling from tags or frontmatter. An exposed API accepts generic data structures, while its Dataview helper maps page lists into items, backgrounds and markers. Dates supplied as strings, Date values or numbers are normalised to YYYY-MM-DD and incomplete year or month values are completed into full dates.