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Re: Obsidian Bases

#11

Post by alberth » Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 9:50 PM UTC

This is slick.

Does anyone know what JS library (presumably) they are using to display, filter, sort the table?

Re: Obsidian Bases

#12

Post by eightysixfour » Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 9:52 PM UTC

dadrian wrote: post #5

Are there any good LLM plugins for Obsidian, beyond just throwing Claude Code / Codex at your markdown folder?

I put Claude Code in MCP server mode, then use it as an MCP server for claude desktop to interact with that folder. Works better for me since Claude Code desperately wants to edit things instead of chat sometimes.

Re: Obsidian Bases

#13

Post by viccis » Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 9:53 PM UTC

datadrivenangel wrote: post #3

So obsidian is now notion is now airtable. Interesting to see how well this scales.

I haven't really looked into what Airtable does, and I shouldn't be surprised at how much AI nonsense I had to dig through on their website to get any real info, but I still was.

Re: Obsidian Bases

#14

Post by sebmellen » Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 9:55 PM UTC

alberth wrote: post #11

This is slick. Does anyone know what JS library (presumably) they are using to display, filter, sort the table?

If I were in their position I’d use TanStack Table.

Re: Obsidian Bases

#15

Post by joethei » Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 9:57 PM UTC

alberth wrote: post #11

This is slick. Does anyone know what JS library (presumably) they are using to display, filter, sort the table?

For the grammar: Lezer For the editor: CodeMirror

Everything else is custom as we generally don't use existing frameworks and the large amount of baggage they carry. CodeMirror and Lezer we already used before Bases.

Re: Obsidian Bases

#16

Post by jasonjmcghee » Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 9:57 PM UTC

Super interesting to see this.

Are things like Kanban views (a la notion) planned?

Re: Obsidian Bases

#17

Post by dang » Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 9:57 PM UTC

I found one previous thread. Others?

Obsidian Bases - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44058972 - May 2025 (13 comments)

Re: Obsidian Bases

#18

Post by hereme888 » Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 10:03 PM UTC

Yes!

No more need to evaluate AnyType or similar apps.

Obsidian rocks.

Re: Obsidian Bases

#19

Post by kepano » Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 10:05 PM UTC

jasonjmcghee wrote: post #16

Super interesting to see this. Are things like Kanban views (a la notion) planned?

It's on the roadmap, yes. https://obsidian.md/roadmap/

Re: Obsidian Bases

#20

Post by echelon » Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 10:06 PM UTC

alberth wrote: post #11

This is slick. Does anyone know what JS library (presumably) they are using to display, filter, sort the table?

This is beyond slick.

I'm finally able to kill Notion (good riddance - I never liked it!), and if it can handle larger tables then I'll stop using Google Suite as well.

My last request of the Obsidian team is a better git plugin. Their official built-in sync product is fine, but I'd still like to manage my own versioning so I can use automations.

The currently available git plugin is extremely dangerous (!!!) if set up incorrectly. I would consider myself an advanced user of git, and Obsidian's git plugin has on several occasions blown away my history and notes. It has frustrating and opaque behavior for how it consolidates change sets and diffs.