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Re: Obsidian Bases

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

There's no decent RAG functionality, AFAICT, but the Text-Generator plugin has been fantastic w/ larger contexts and a template that pulls either/both links and backlinks into the inference query window.

Hands-down my most productive interface to LLMs for [years since GPT3.5] years running.

Re: Obsidian Bases

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As much as I like the idea of Obsidian, I just can't get over all the additional functionality that Notion provides due to the integrated nature of it.

In particular, I love how you select text/blocks in Notion and how every line is a "block". I really wish other editors did that as well. In fact, it's probably the main reason why I haven't moved away from Notion.

Re: Obsidian Bases

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post #20
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…

Can you expand on when the git plugin is dangerous?

Re: Obsidian Bases

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post #10

I've been using bases (in beta) for a month or so for the vault I keep for the notes for each of the (many) D&D/ttrpg campaigns I play in, and it's really made it a ton easier to get an overview of e.g. the many different NPCs we meet and interact with, and the relevant info (name/pronouns/pic/race/class/etc) all in one place. The Obsidian dev team has been really responsive to feedback from those of us in the beta,…

Man, you probably gave me the only use case that could push me beyond my basic usage of Obsidian. [i wait for your YouTube demo. #PROOOOFIT]

Lol, I'm not much of a "content creator" (though I'd recommend wanderloots' intro series on bases[1]), but here's a quick gist of what I extracted from my for one of my campaigns:

https://gist.github.com/LordDragonfang/d826cb686c64d582afbe2...

This is a combined view of the players and npcs from one campaign with the portrait gallery in the second view.

I've got the official template plugin bound to ctrl-shift-2, so I just hit that to pre-populate the frontmatter whenever I create an npc/pc/etc note with the appropriate template.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWhMzDKA7vJ4NDvVhlZMk...

Re: Obsidian Bases

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post #20
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…

I know this won't work for some and is no replacement for a good git plugin, but have you tried using an Obsidian terminal plugin to manage git and the git repos yourself?

Re: Obsidian Bases

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post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Can you expand on when the git plugin is dangerous?

I've never had it wipe anything before[1], but I do have a stretch of 200+ commits in my personal vault where my laptop and desktop were fighting back and forth on the contents of one setting file.

One caveat is that the obsidian android app DOES NOT seem to save files to storage until the note unloads, which can break things if you pull in the middle of making changes.

[1] Though I have had to fix my termux clone of the vault enough times that I now just nuke it and re-clone instead of bothering with git - but that's more of a "termux likes to break git" issue than anything

Re: Obsidian Bases

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post #28

Neat! Is the 'import from notion' functionality able to convert Notion databases to this?

You can import all the underlying data from Notion using the Obsidian Importer plugin, however I believe that Notion's Databases export only includes a CSV. So you'll need to recreate the views to be able to interact with them dynamically.

https://help.obsidian.md/import/notion

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