- Add age (birthday), remaining (countdown), elapsed (since) aliases,
alongside the existing bday/until/difference.
- README: document new aliases in each type's header and the Type
Aliases section.
- Settings tab rewritten: drop the stale GitHub doc link and hardcoded
pre-redesign examples (countdown+from, auto-colon labels). Replace
with a compact syntax TL;DR \u2014 all four types with their aliases,
fields, and one-line descriptions, plus relative dates, frontmatter
fallback, and inline/fenced examples \u2014 and link to the README on
Gitea (was pointing at a stale GitHub URL).
Verified: aliases tested against the real shipped config parser; the
settings tab's actual display() (found via app.setting.pluginTabs) was
invoked live in Obsidian and rendered exactly the intended content with
no errors.
- Sharpen countdown vs diff: countdown is now always relative to now and
no longer accepts a 'from' field (previously identical math to diff
with a custom from, just different message framing).
- Add symmetric frontmatter fallback to countdown (to/deadline), diff
(from/start, to/end), and since (since/created) \u2014 previously only
birthday read frontmatter.
- Add relative date support to parseMoment: today, now, tomorrow,
yesterday, and +/-N offsets (d/w/mo/y/h/m), always relative to now.
Fixes diff's main weakness of needing hardcoded, staling dates.
- Make label verbatim everywhere (was auto-appending ': ' for countdown
only, inconsistent with birthday's verbatim convention).
- Fix silent inline failures: unresolvable type now shows an explicit
error ('Missing or unrecognized type') instead of rendering nothing,
matching fenced-block behavior. Also fixes 'from=X' alone (documented
since-alias) not inferring a type.
- Remove the 'YAML-like' comma-separated inline format from docs \u2014 it
isn't valid non-flow YAML and silently produced nothing; only
key=value and {flow-mapping} are documented now.
- README rewritten to match: field references, frontmatter docs per
type, and a new relative-dates section.
Verified against the real bundled logic (12 behavioral checks) and live
in Obsidian via CDP across both Live Preview and Reading View.
- Fix RangeSetBuilder ordering crash: inline and fenced-block decorations
are now merged and sorted before being added, instead of two unsorted
passes (crashed whenever a fenced block preceded inline code in a note).
- Add explicit @codemirror/state and @codemirror/view devDependencies
(previously only transitive via @codemirror/language).
- Add Reading View support for inline `date-calc:` spans via
registerMarkdownPostProcessor (previously Live Preview only), mirroring
the approach used by Dataview's inline queries.
- Fix verbose=false being silently truthy (non-empty string) in inline
key=value config, which meant it never actually disabled verbose output.
- Fix diff type auto-inference: from/to was dead code (countdown's check
always matched first); reordered so from+to or start+end infer diff.
- Implement documented but missing birthday label support: cfg.label,
falling back to frontmatter name ("Jane's age:"), then "Age:".
- Split main.ts (777 lines) into src/ modules per AGENTS.md conventions.
- Fix duplicated command-palette prefixes, move inline JS styles to
styles.css, fix package.json author, drop orphaned showArrow setting.
Verified: unit tests against the real bundled logic (mocked obsidian
module), a reproduction of the RangeSetBuilder crash against the real
@codemirror/state package, and live end-to-end testing in Obsidian via
CDP/Playwright (Tchernobyl vault).
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olivier
Steph Ango