Yesterday, the Obsidian team released this new core plugin in the latest update.
It’s not quite like Notion databases. Instead, it works more like a list of all your notes—yes, all notes.
There’s no folder-level organization built in, so if you want to narrow things down, you’ll need to use filters.
The views themselves aren’t reusable. To focus on a folder, you create a new view, apply a folder filter, then duplicate that Base and move it into the desired folder. Since I rely more on folder structure than tags, I wanted a “list page” in each folder. That’s what I ended up creating.
Properties play a big role here. Obsidian uses these properties to generate tables. I haven’t used the Dataview plugin before, so I can’t compare them directly. But if you’re thinking of something like a content calendar, you could make Status a property of type Category. One limitation, though: you can’t restrict property values. The only convenience is that once you enter a value, it will show up as a suggestion the next time you type in that column.
My solution was to create one Base per folder so I can access them easily. The workflow is simple: create a new view, apply the folder filter,
then duplicate
move it to the folder where I need it
And that works well enough for me.
