There are 2 ways to include a note in a timeline:

  • Frontmatter or
  • HTML tags.

We’re going to use HTML, as it’s a little simpler.

Read more about events here

There’s a handy little command for inserting an HTML command into a note of our choice.

Go ahead and create a note anywhere, hit Ctrl + P to open Obsidian’s Command Palette, and type insert

We’ll see something like the following:

Obsidian Command Palette

Select the option titled Timelines (Revamped): Insert timeline event. We’ll explore those other commands later.

In our note, we should see something like this:

<div class="ob-timelines"
  data-title=""
  data-description=""
  data-start-date=""
  data-end-date=""
  data-classes=""
  data-color=""
  data-era=""
  data-group=""
  data-path=""
  data-points-to=""
  data-type=""
  data-tags="">
  New Event
</div>

We’ll keep it simple. Update your event to hold the following data:

<div class="ob-timelines"
  data-title="Our First Event"
  data-start-date="2024-5-24"
>
  Event Number One
</div>

If you click off, don’t be alarmed. By default, HTML elements with the ob-timelines class are hidden in Reading and Live Preview modes. It’s still there, you just can’t see it. We’ll go over how to show a small indicator in a different note. For now, you can switch back to Source mode to see the event.

You’ve just created your first event.

Click on Tagging a note for a Timeline to learn how to make sure our event gets rendered on our timeline.