View count is an Obsidian.md plugin for desktop and mobile. It allows you to track the view count for each file in your vault.
Basic plugin usage
The sync view count to frontmatter setting
The view count type setting
Once you enable the plugin, view count data will start being tracked. You can see the view count on desktop in the status bar in the bottom righthand corner.
There are 2 types of view count. View count type
If you would like to view the view count on mobile, you will need to enable the Sync view count to frontmatter setting.
By default, the plugin will add a view to the sidebar called View count. You may access this view by opening the sidebar and clicking on the eye icon.
If the view is not open, you may run Open view count view from the command palette.
There are 2 different lists within the view count:
A list of the most viewed notes in your vault sorted in descending order. Click on the eye icon to see this list.
A list of the notes with the highest trending weight sorted in descending order. Click on the trending icon to see this list.
You may dynamically query view count data using the Dataview plugin
If you have Sync view count to frontmatter enabled you may query the view count property from the frontmatter of each note.
```dataview
TABLE view-count AS "View Count" SORT view-count DESC LIMIT 10
```
Let's analyze this codeblock:
view-count
property in each note```dataviewjs
const plugin = this.app.plugins.plugins["view-count"];
const cache = plugin.viewCountCache;
const TIME_PERIOD = "7-days";
dv.table(["Name", "Trending Weight"],
dv.pages().sort(p => cache.getTrendingWeight(p.file, TIME_PERIOD), "desc")
.map(p => [p.file.name, cache.getTrendingWeight(p.file, TIME_PERIOD)])
.slice(0,10)
);
```
Let's analyze this codeblock:
The time period can be updated with various values. See the time period section below.
The view count plugin exposes an API that can be used to fetch the view count or trending weight for any file.
To start, you need to access the view count cache.
//Get the view count plugin
const plugin = this.app.plugins.plugins["view-count"];
//Get the view count cache
const cache = plugin.viewCountCache;
Then you can use the cache to get a view count or trending weight.
//Get the trending weight
const weight = cache.getTrendingWeight(file, timePeriod);
console.log(weight);
//output: 22
//Get the view count
const viewCount = cache.getViewCount(file);
console.log(viewCount);
//output: 5
Here are the typescript definitions for these functions:
getViewCount: (file: TFile) => number;
getTrendingWeight: (file: TFile, timePeriod: TimePeriod) => number;
The getTrendingWeight
function accepts a time period.
Here are the options:
Value | Description |
---|---|
3-days |
The last 3 days |
7-days |
The last 7 days |
14-days |
The last 14 days |
30-days |
The last 30 days |
today |
The start of the current day |
week |
The start of the week i.e. Sunday |
week-iso |
The start of the iso week i.e. Monday |
month |
The start of the month e.g. January 1 |
The method used to calculate view counts. This can be the total number of times a file has been opened or the unique days a file has been opened.
For example, consider a user that opened a file 3 times in 1 day. Using Total times opened
the view count would be 3. However, using Unique days opened
the view count would be 1.
A unique day is considered an opening of a file after 12 am local time.
The folder paths that should be excluded from view count tracking. Please separate individual paths by commas e.g. folder1,folder2
The view count for all files is stored in a JSON file located in the Obsidian configuration folder e.g. .obsidian/view-count.json
. When Sync view count
is enabled, the plugin will add a view count property to all notes and continuously update them to match the values stored in the JSON file.
Enabling this setting makes view count visible on mobile devices.
When enabled, new notes will not have a view count property added upon creation. However, if Sync View Count
is enabled, a property will be added when the note is opened.
The name of the property that the view count will be stored in.
[!WARNING] Please rename the existing view count property before updating this value. You can rename the existing property using the rename option in the All Properties view in the right sidebar.
The time to wait in milliseconds before adding a view count property to a new note. You should increase this value if you're using the Templater plugin and the template applied during new note creation is being overwritten.
View Count is distributed under MIT License