A weekly chart in Obsidian without Tracker

You log a number in each daily note and want the weekly total as bars, with a line for your goal. Tracker draws a bar per day and has no way to add a week up. Dashy's chart block does it in six lines.

1Put the number in a property

Dashy reads frontmatter only: the Properties at the top of a note. One number property per thing you measure.

---
run_km: 8.5
---

## 2026-09-14

• 2026-09-14The note's name is its date. That is how a value lands in its week.
• run_km: 8.5A plain number. A day with no run leaves the property out.

Coming from Tracker, your numbers may live in the text of the note, as a tag or a Dataview inline field. Dashy does not read either. Move each one into a property, by hand or with find and replace:

Easy run by the river. #run:8.5

run_km:: 8.5

---
run_km: 8.5
---

Easy run by the river.

2Add it up by week

Make a note for the chart, say Running.md, and paste this block. It draws the picture above.

```chart
source: Diary
field: run_km
type: bar
bucket: week
unit: km
goal: 30
```

• bucket: weekAdds up every value in a week. The week starts on Monday or Sunday, as your language has it.
• type: barBars. Leave it out for a line.
• goal: 30A dashed line at 30, with its value. The axis always stretches to show it.
• RangeBy default the last 182 days for weeks. range: 90d or range: year to change it.

The week you are in is drawn lighter, and its tooltip says "so far". A week with no runs is a gap, never a zero. Hover a bar for its total.

3Several numbers side by side

Up to four properties on one chart with series, each its own bar. Times work as they are written: 51min, 1h 12m, 0:48:30.

Running.mdCopy

```chart
source: Diary
type: bar
bucket: week
series:
  - { field: run_time, label: Run }
  - { field: bike_time, label: Bike, color: orange }
  - { field: swim_time, label: Swim, color: cyan }
```

renders as

Bars stand side by side, never stacked, on one axis. For two numbers on different scales, steps and sleep for example, use two chart blocks.

The whole note

Both charts in one piece, ready to paste into an empty note.

```chart
source: Diary
field: run_km
type: bar
bucket: week
unit: km
goal: 30
```

```chart
source: Diary
type: bar
bucket: week
series:
  - { field: run_time, label: Run }
  - { field: bike_time, label: Bike, color: orange }
  - { field: swim_time, label: Swim, color: cyan }
```

The same chart with Tracker or dataviewjs

Both read the same run_km property.

tracker dataviewjs

With the Tracker pluginCopy

```tracker
searchType: frontmatter
searchTarget: run_km
folder: Diary
startDate: -6M
endDate: 0d
bar:
    title: Running
    yAxisLabel: Distance
    yAxisUnit: km
```

• One bar per day. Tracker has no setting to add up a week; that is an open request.
• Tracker's docs list no goal line for bar or line charts.
• Tracker also reads tags (searchType: tag), inline fields (searchType: dvField) and text. If you keep it for that, keep it.

With Dataview and Obsidian ChartsCopy

```dataviewjs
const weeks = {};
for (const p of dv.pages('"Diary"').where(p => p.run_km && p.file.day)) {
  const key = p.file.day.startOf("week").toFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
  weeks[key] = (weeks[key] ?? 0) + p.run_km;
}
const labels = Object.keys(weeks).sort().slice(-26);
window.renderChart({
  type: "bar",
  data: { labels, datasets: [{ label: "Run, km", data: labels.map(k => weeks[k]) }] },
}, this.container);
```

• Two plugins: Dataview with Enable JavaScript queries on, and Obsidian Charts for renderChart.
• A week with no runs has no key in weeks, so it drops off the axis instead of showing as a gap.

Variations

```chart
source: Diary
field: run_km
type: bar
bucket: month
range: year
unit: km
```

```chart
source: Diary
field: sleep
agg: avg
bucket: week
goal: 8h
```

```chart
source: Diary
field: gym
type: bar
bucket: week
goal: 3
```

```chart
source: Diary
agg: count
type: bar
bucket: week
```

If a block shows an error

A Dashy chart that cannot draw says why, inside the note. The usual three:

• An error from Obsidian Charts, not from Dashy. With Charts on, a chart block is Charts'. Write dashy-chart.
• None of the selected notes has a name starting with a date like YYYY-MM-DD. Rename the daily notes, or add date_field: date if the date is a property.
• "run_km" holds text or another value that is not a number. Something like run_km: 8.5 km. Keep the number alone and put the unit in unit: km.

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