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obsidian-dataview
TypeScript2021–2025
blacksmithgu / obsidian-dataview

obsidian-dataview

A data index and query language over Markdown files, for https://obsidian.md/.

18Distinct people
19Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
9.4KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

A data index and query language over Markdown files, for https://obsidian.md/.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:03:30 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year19 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-07-12 07:09:41 UTC to 2025-08-20 18:08:49 UTC.

024682021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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No, Obsidian is quite more powerful. Obsidian has built-in support for markdown, images, PDFs, canvas (via JSON Canvas which they developed and open sourced https://obsidian.md/canvas), and others. For databases, you can add fields/properties both in the markdown frontmatter or in the text and query it via very popular plugins: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview There are tons of community plugins that support all kind of stuff: tasks, kanban, LLM/Copilot, graph analysis of links, charts. It can also be extended in JS, both writing your own plugins or via a few plugins that allow limited JS support. --- Obsidian is actually quite good as a NoCode prototyping platform for personal apps :-) E.g. CRUD: - Use templates, via Templater: to define the content of your data - Use links and tags to define relations and connections -
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Use dataview or graphs for views - There are even plugins to define buttons and the actions they perform, if you need commands
In Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software
I'm also using Obsidian daily notes, with all un-actioned items shown on a page with a dataview API[^1]: ```dataview TASK FROM "VaultName/Journal" WHERE !completed ``` Since at least 2012 I've also been using a text file format from http://todotxt.org/ and more recently I wrote a program that takes a crontab-like list[^2] to pre-generate entries on a daily, by-day-name (every Sunday for example), and I also pull in a list of holidays from gov.uk, so they are also populated. [^1]: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview [^2]: https://github.com/alister/alister-tools/blob/main/.todo.cro...
In My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2022)

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