Creating a Heatmap Calendar to Track Habits, & Other Activities in Obsidian

Prakash Joshi Pax
Obsidian Observer
Published in
5 min readDec 18, 2023

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Obsidian Heatmap Calendar

A heatmap calendar is a powerful way to track and visualize our activities. It makes it easy to get insights about how we spend and engage our time.

If you use Obsidian and want to track your habits and activities with a heatmap calendar, you landed on the right spot.

This article teaches you how to create a heatmap calendar tailored for tracking habits, and other activities within Obsidian.

Previously, I talked about creating a simple habit tracker with the dataview plugin. By the end of this article, you’ll learn a little more advanced way to track habits i.e. by using a heatmap calendar.

Heatmap cale

I’m a non-tech guy. So, I’ve made it as simple as possible to implement this in your vault.

Install the required plugins

We’ll need two plugins to create a heatmap calendar. The first one is Dataview. I guess you are already using that one.

After installing the dataview plugin, you need to enable the javascript queries.

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Prakash Joshi Pax
Obsidian Observer

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