Jeff ForcierSep 1, 2025

Experimenting with #Obsidian's new Bases feature vs my existing #DataView setup.

Haven't dug yet to see how much I can torture Bases into being as capable as DataView, but so far it meets my expectations: yea it gets about 80-90% of the way there (VERY EXCITING!) but I'll have to think real hard about how to tackle that missing 10-20% when it pops up.

(eg, lack of dynamic sort function will be a bit of a problem, tho TBF that's also a problem in Airtable…)

Show threadMonospace Mentor
@bitprophet AFAICS, Bases and DataView can coexist nicely. I'm happy to see more database functionality moving into core, TBH. It creates more confidence that the effort of setting up all this metadata will be worthwhile in the long run.
Sep 1, 2025 at 4:02pmWeb
Show threadJeff ForcierSep 1, 2025

@monospace absolutely 💯, I'm excited to have a serious data/query/table setup in core now & will almost certainly be moving as much as I can into it.

I'm also now glad I kept putting off my planned mass export from Airtable into DataView 'cuz now I can do that into Bases instead 😂

(again sans those 10-20% cases where, yea, I'll probably suck it up and continue using DataView for the interim.)