It’s been a couple of weeks since I posted here, and there’s been a lot happening in my world. Some of it I’ll cover in a May retrospective next week. Some of it won’t get covered either because I’m not ready to talk about it yet, or because there are other people involved and they don’t need my comments, perceptions, or thoughts on a subject where, at best I have half the story.

So, what is bright and shiny this week. Obsidian Bases. What?

if you’re part of the early access program with Obsidian, release 1.9.1 includes a new core plugin called Bases. It allows you to turn your vault of notes into a database. My first thought was, so what. I have the Dataview plugin that allows me to write queries on all the notes in the vault and build results for display.

That’s true but when I looked at how the Base syntax is structured and some of the functionality in the road map, I came more excited. The Obsidian development team fleshed out and improved the original Canvas concept really quickly to the point where I use canvas a lot of time. I expect they’ll do the same with Bases over the next few months and in the meantime I’ll tinker around and see what it can do.