Updating My Obsidian Daily Note Using Bases

An Obsidian Bases View Created From My Obsidian Vault

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Bases is the newest core plugin in Obsidian. Bases is only available to Catalyst subscribers right now, so it’s definitely early days. In this article and the accompanying video I’ll dive into how I’m adding Bases into my Daily Note. I’ll also hit on some key features I hope Bases gets in the future as well as some things you can do now to optimize your vault for Bases use in the future.

Where Does Bases Functionality Fit?

Bases offers a couple of different use cases. The initial use case I’m going to explore in this article is replacing dataview queries (or if you don’t use dataview queries, adding this functionality without using dataview).

The second use case is to introduce what I call object-oriented knowledge management (OOKM). Knowledge Management tools like Capacities and Notion are much more object oriented as they rely on databases of like objects that you then link together with both database and non-database pages. I love certain elements of both Capacities and Notion and I’ve created some object oriented knowledge management within Obsidian using templates and dataview. We’ll dive more into that…