Changelog

See Roadmap for upcoming features.

Disclaimer: The mentioned frontmatter properties represent their default keys;
you may have renamed them in your vault.

v1.2.1, 2026-08-26

• Timestamp events now have text descriptions.
• Added command which adds all missing Gantt properties to the current file (matching your renamed property keys)
• Settings:
  • Default calendar selection goes from text to dropdown
  • Default group selection added, also dropdown
  • You can no longer delete the default group/calendar
• Add fallback implementation for Gregorian calendar

v1.2.0, 2026-08-26

• Added predecessors and successors to event properties. Optional list properties
  • Added option to highlight related events
  • Added option to connect related events with directional arrows
• Added cooldown to re-rendering of Gantt chart. Set it to anything from 0 to 30 seconds.
• Bases: add new setting to the base itself to be able to use lower and upper bound date with fantasy calendar instead
  of gregorian.
• Optional: Use filename as fallback for event start date. Useful for daily notes. Disabled in v1.2.1.

Other

• Settings: Split Add ribbon icon into 2 options; 1 for desktop, 1 for mobile
• CSS: Changed text and arrow color depending on theme

v1.1.8, 2026-08-22

• Place timestamp events with symbol vertical-line in their respective group vertically (like eras)

Bugfix

• Add default color to event icons

v1.1.7, 2026-08-21

• Add optional suffix to descriptive date: "today +-X"
  • X gets interpreted as days for now, more options to come
• Sort and cleanup plugin settings
  • New setting: hide moons
  • New setting: choose color for hover effect
• Random color for new groups and calendars

v1.1.6, 2026-08-19

• Bases: Improved layout of custom tooltip - define what you want to see
• Bases: Show file preview when hovering while holding CTRL
  • Key will be configurable in the next update
• Move vertical hover overlay of events to behind event symbols
• Improve naming of frontmatter property names related to calendars

v1.1.5, 2026-08-18

• Bases feature: Improved tooltip layout in bases
  • The tooltip title prefix Day:xyz prefix is gone

Bugfix

• Fix overlay and click reaction of point events

v1.1.4, 2026-08-18

• Bases feature: Selected properties will appear in event tooltip
• Official documentation: https://altarok.github.io/gantt-this/

Bugfix

• End-date property no longer ignored

v1.1.3, 2026-08-18

• New plugin Settings lets you decide which button to use while scrolling to zoom / pan.
  • With this you will be able to just scroll over a chart without breaking the scroll
• General grammar and description improvements

v1.1.2, 2026-08-17

• Bugfix: Add missing overlay for new icons 'star' and 'octagon'

v1.1.1, 2026-08-17

• Includes Bases in the most basic version. You will be able to do the following:
• Use bases to see your fantasy Gantt charts. This comes with
  • Have all your charts in 1 file
  • Manually select which folders to use for your events
    • Filter file in folder foo/bar to see events in this folder including sub-folders
    • Filter folder is foo/bar to see events in this folder not including sub-folders
  • Set up a lower and upper date range for each chart individually (which will reference your default calendar)
  • See the amount of found events in the top-left corner
• Stars and octagons are available
• Release done because the last one failed due to GitHub hickup. This should have been 1.1.0

v1.0.3, 2026-08-16

• Add setting for default event symbol
• Calendars now may contain an optional outputFormat (to display dates differently from input format in event notes)
• A year-only date is now a valid option
  • Points to January 1st for now, a setting will allow to interpret it as a 1-year timespan

Bugfixes

• Move minus for negative years to front of date (was fixed to year before)
• Calendars no longer have to be lowercase only, this also applies to groups

v1.0.2, 2026-08-14

• Setting: Makes gantt-item checkbox optional.
  • If active, this saves you 1 frontmatter property per event, but gives less control.
• Make descriptive date "today" work for non-Gregorian calendars, for code-blocks.

Bugfix

• Default calendar now works (calendar must be defined in list below)

v1.0.1, 2026-08-14

• Improved grammar in settings, removed typos.
• "today" is now a valid date for events -> This enables you to:
  • Mark the current day with something (e.g. vertical-line event)
  • Define an event with an open end (start: x, end: today)
    • Gregorian only for now

Bugfix

• Moons are back

v1.0.0, 2026-08-13

• Improved mobile support with touch events.
• Added panning with CTRL key (Win + MacOS).
• Added n-cornered shapes function and added triangle and hexagon as displayTypes by @CePeU
  • Added n-shaped overlays
• Added pentagon as symbol type and fixed hexagon and diamond classes by @CePeU
• Added start- and end days for calendars. They can end now instead of going forever.
• Added attribute 'displayName' to events and calendars. Use "" to not show any name.
• Added optional post-scriptum for calendar dates ("BC"/"AD").
• Settings
  • Make zoom and pan controls switchable
  • Add ribbon icon

Bugfixes

• Tooltip was in wrong place when chart note was popped out of Obsidian.
• Wider screens now zoom and pan better.

v0.5.3, 2026-08-10

• Added intelligent minimum and maximum for zoom.
• Added code block content parsing:
  • Added lower and upper bound ranges for initial view via code block.
  • Added center date for initial focus via code block.
• Shorten mouse overlay lines to only be visible above related calendar.
• Added optional list of moons; including color, offset and cycle

v0.5.2, 2026-08-07

• Added new event type vertical-line.
• Added text to era events.
• Moved era and vertical-line events behind others.
• Automated text and icon removal while zooming.
• Added optional icons for all events (except vertical-line).
• Automated number of dates on screen.
• Allow calendars without months.
• Added optional calendar displayName - will get shown as axis description.

Other

• Code - refactor SVG creation

v0.5.1, 2026-08-04

• New Contributor: CePeU
  • Small fix of group icon and settings description by @CePeU
• Added colored eras.
• Fixed offset calculation for calendar definitions.
• Added short name property of calendar months.
• Show dates in tooltips with human-readable month names, uses short name if given.

v0.5.0, 2026-07-31

Adapt to new Obsidian settings (version 1.13+).

v0.4.1, 2026-07-28

• Changed width of code block creator modal to 90%.
• Added setting: Show row of buttons at the end of toolbar to toggle group visibility.
• Overhaul German version of README.

v0.4.0, 2026-07-28

• Added text description to bar events.
• Added new timestamp event symbol: diamond
• Added optional icons to timestamp events.
• Added frontmatter property to let you link to in-note header.
• Added highlight to hovered events.

v0.3.0, 2026-07-28

• Added group priority sorting.
• Added group visibility toggle.

v0.2.7, 2026-07-27

Bugfix: Changed order of DOM elements in settings view.

v0.2.6, 2026-07-27

Remove typo.

v0.2.5, 2026-07-27

Group definitions now optional in settings.

v0.2.4, 2026-07-27

• Sort groups and calendars in settings.
• Added shortcut to settings.

v0.2.3, 2026-07-24

Remove hard-coded min & max zoom.

v0.2.2, 2026-07-24

Bugfix: Release done because of version mismatches.

v0.2.1, 2026-07-24

Added reload button to Gantt chart.

v0.2.0, 2026-07-24

Added mobile support via buttons for zooming and panning.

v0.1.0, 2026-07-22

Initial release for testing.