The Timeline
The vault by date, newest first: every note on the day it was written, every daily note, sigil tick, reading sitting, voice note, captured line and publication — and, once a year, a note that adds the year up.
The Calendar reads one month. The Timeline reads all of them at once, as one list you scroll back through: a month heading, then each day that held anything, then one row per thing the day held.
Open it by typing Open the Timeline in the command palette, from the The Timeline button
on the Calendar page, or at /timeline. On a phone it is a row under More, and in the Calendar
tab's ⋯. It opens as a tab like the Calendar and Today.
What a row is
Every row has an icon for its kind, a title and one line under it:
| Kind | What it is | The line under it |
|---|---|---|
| Notes | A note, on the day it belongs to | its opening sentence |
| Daily notes | The day's own daily note | its opening sentence |
| Sigils | A sigil that logged that day | the day's note in the log, or 2 of 3 |
| Reading | Sittings with a book, from its tracker's sessions: | pages and time, the time with ~ when it was estimated |
| Voice | A long voice note (its own note), or recordings linked from the day's inbox | its opening, or how many recordings |
| Captured | Lines captured into the day's note or inbox | how many lines |
| Published | A published note whose published: names a later day than the one it was written | its opening sentence |
The day a note belongs to is its daily-note date when it is a daily note (a note for the 24th
written on the 30th is still the 24th's); else its frontmatter date:, created: or published:
when one spells a day; else the day this instance first saw the file — which a vault that is a git
repository reads back from the commit that added it, so a note edited today does not move to today.
Press a row to open its note. Nothing here is stored: the list is read, each time, from the same places the Calendar reads — the daily folder, the sigil logs, the trackers' sittings — plus each note's own date. Delete the line and the day forgets it.
Filters and the months
The chips above the list filter it: press Notes, Sigils or any other kind to keep only those (press more than one to keep several), and pick a folder or a tag from the two menus beside them. Clear the filters appears once any is on. Each chip carries its count.
On a desktop, the Months rail beside the list names every month with how many rows it holds; press one to jump there, and the rail marks the month you are reading as you scroll. On a phone the same list is a sheet, raised by the calendar button in the top bar.
The list stays quick however many years your vault holds: only the rows on screen (and a screen's worth either side) are ever drawn.
Year in review
Year in review… — in the palette, on the Timeline's header, and in the phone Calendar's ⋯ —
asks which year (the vault's years are listed; in January it suggests the year that just ended) and
writes Reviews/<year>.md:
- At a glance: notes begun that year, and the words written in them and in the daily notes; days with a daily note; sigil ticks; cards reviewed (from Orbits' log on this device); pages read and in how many sittings, and how many of those sittings (and their minutes) were estimated from the progress bar; books finished.
- Months: a table of the twelve months — notes, daily notes, sigil ticks, cards, pages.
- Sigils: each sigil's ticks and its best streak that year, counted the way its card counts a streak (days it asks nothing of do not break it).
- Books finished, with the date and your rating, each a link to its tracker's note.
- Most linked: the notes that year's writing linked to most.
Everything the command writes sits between two markers:
<!-- astrolabe:year-review -->
…
<!-- /astrolabe:year-review -->
Write whatever you like around them. Running the command again for the same year rewrites only what is between the markers, so your own lines about the year stay. The note is written in the language the app is showing when you run it.
See also: Today for the day in front of you, and the Calendar for a month at a glance.