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About The Project

TimeWise Counter is a plugin that continually calculates and displays the time remaining until a specified deadline or the time elapsed since a specified start date. It allows easy customization and formatting.

Built With

Usage

TimeWise Counter identifies special deadline or count-up markers in your text and replaces them with a live countdown or count-up. The markers follow these formats:

[output](d[DEADLINE]{TEMPLATE})
[output](u[STARTDATE]{TEMPLATE})

• output: The parsed template output
• DEADLINE or STARTDATE: The target time; if this date/time has passed for deadlines, the plugin shows zeros. For count-ups, it shows the time elapsed since the start date.
  • Supported formats:
    1. year-month-day:hour-minute (e.g., 2025-12-31:13-45)
    2. year-month-day (e.g., 2025-12-31)
    3. hour-minute (e.g., 13-45)
    4. Short years (less than 100) are interpreted as 20xx. For example, 25-12-31 -> 2025-12-31.
• TEMPLATE: Specifies how the remaining or elapsed time should be displayed. Separate tokens with underscores ( _ becomes a space).

Template Tokens

Each letter indicates how to count down or up:

• y = Years
• m = Months
• w = Weeks
• d = Days
• H = Hours
• M = Minutes

All non-token text (e.g., years, days, minutes) remains literal. For example:

y_years_d_days_M_minutes

could output something like 1 years 9 days 30 minutes.

Examples

1. Full Date-Time Deadline

   [](d[2025-01-10:14-00]{y_years_d_days_H_hours})

   • Suppose today is 2024-01-01 00:00.
   • This might display: [1 years 9 days 14 hours](d[2025-01-10:14-00]{y_years_d_days_H_hours})

2. Full Date-Time Count-Up

   [](u[2023-01-01:00-00]{y_years_d_days_H_hours})

   • Suppose today is 2024-01-01 00:00.
   • This might display: [1 years 0 days 0 hours](u[2023-01-01:00-00]{y_years_d_days_H_hours})

3. Date Only Deadline

   [](d[2025-01-10]{m_months_d_days})

   • With a current date of 2024-01-01, you might see: [12 months 9 days](d[2025-01-10]{m_months_d_days}).

4. Date Only Count-Up

   [](u[2023-01-01]{m_months_d_days})

   • With a current date of 2024-01-01, you might see: [12 months 0 days](u[2023-01-01]{m_months_d_days}).

5. Time Only Deadline

   [](d[15-30]{H_hours_M_minutes})

   • If it's currently 09:00, it could show: [6 hours 30 minutes](d[15-30]{H_hours_M_minutes}).

6. Time Only Count-Up

   [](u[09-00]{H_hours_M_minutes})

   • If it's currently 15:30, it could show: [6 hours 30 minutes](u[09-00]{H_hours_M_minutes}).

7. Short Year Deadline

   [](d[25-01-01]{y_years_m_months})

   • Interpreted as 2025-01-01, so if we're in 2024-01-01, that might be: [1 years 0 months](d[25-01-01]{y_years_m_months}).

8. Short Year Count-Up

   [](u[23-01-01]{y_years_m_months})

   • Interpreted as 2023-01-01, so if we're in 2024-01-01, that might be: [1 years 0 months](u[23-01-01]{y_years_m_months}).

9. Week Calculation Deadline

   [](d[2024-02-15]{w_weeks_d_days})

   • If only a few weeks remain until Feb 15, 2024, this might read: [2 weeks 3 days](...).

10. Week Calculation Count-Up

    [](u[2023-12-01]{w_weeks_d_days})

    • If a few weeks have passed since Dec 1, 2023, this might read: [2 weeks 3 days](...).

11. Past Deadlines

    • If the deadline is in the past, all tokens become zero, e.g.:

    [](d[2023-12-31]{y_years_d_days_H_hours})

    becomes:

    [0 years 0 days 0 hours](d[2023-12-31]{y_years_d_days_H_hours})

Build

Prerequisites

Make sure you have Node.js (and npm) installed.

npm install npm@latest -g

Installation

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://gitlab.com/flxholle/timewise-countdown.git

2. Install NPM packages

   npm install

3. Build the plugin: The plugin is built using Webpack, which creates the compiled code in /dist

   npm run dist

Contributing

Contributions make open source amazing. If you have an idea or fix, please:

1. Fork the Project
2. Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for details.

Contact

Felix Hollederer - @flxholle - [email protected]

Project Link: https://gitlab.com/flxholle/timewise-countdown

Acknowledgments

• Joplin for a great note-taking platform