Visualize your past weeks’ thoughts
The Obsidian search and graph view can filter notes. You can view just the thoughts which you have created during a specific period of time. This is very handy for your regular reviews.
I use the tag permanent
to distinguish thoughts from fleeting notes, e.g. volatile flashes, bits of information, literature notes.
To allow date filtering, I add the “created” date to the frontmatter of each markdown file. Example: created: 2024-01-13
. Actually, the Obsidian Templater Plugin creates that property automatically for each new note.
Next, I construct a search filter using the Obsidian search box. The example above uses (tag:#permanent OR tag:#moc) [created:2023-01-]
to show all thoughts I have created in January 2023.
To render the visual representation, I transfer that query to the global graph.
References
- reddit: Obsidian Graph View Filter and Properties
- Obsidian Help: Search
- SilentVoid13: Obsidian Templater Plugin