Creator plugin here. Thank you so much for this video! It makes my day. Now I found even more motivation to continue improving the plugin. I hope you enjoy the future features like pagination (theoretically supports 100k rows)

@miguelbaratagoncalves2551

2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations, Rafael!! As a Ph.D. doing research, the plugin looks like just what I was looking for in my literature review! Thanks also to Sergio to make this video!

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Rafael, stellar plugin! I've been following a long its progress since you released beta. Can't wait to see what else you have in store for us and you deserve all of the credit you are receiving! Have a great one :)

@rafaelgomezbermejo8557

2 жыл бұрын

@@FromSergio I just add a section into the plugin documentation with related media. Also you can enjoy version 2.3.0 - mayor update until now

@mjylove2

Жыл бұрын

Rafael..you made my day! I had goosebumps. I really loved database from notion. And what you brought to Obsidian is pure gold. Thank you so much!

@MarcKoschel

Жыл бұрын

Rafael! Thant so much for this great plugin! I was looking for something where I can filter my Dataview tables. Thanx to you, I've found it!!

i can't believe i was too lazy to learn this all this time, this is exactly what i needed to make using obsidian easier (using dataview and having to edit entires by opening each other is a bit of a pain) great stuff, keep forgetting just how dedicated obsidian userbase is to making it flexible lol

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

100% understand! For many people, this is simply a better choice than dataview!

Sergio the obsidian guy 😄always brings us top notch quality content. I think this plugin is gonna be a game changer as it provides a good abstraction on top of the dataview search engine. Big thanks to Rafael for this masterpiece and big thanks to Sergio for the quick demo.

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind words! Couldn't agree more and I think it'll do wonders to bring folks over from Notion!

@starkxz

2 жыл бұрын

​@@FromSergio Bringing users from Notion + Empowering existing obsidian users => kill two birds with one stone/plugin 😅

Man, you have no idea how happy 01:10 made me. Thank you for sharing this video, I finally can use the details I put into YAML as I intended.

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

Love to hear it! Glad i was able to help! :)

Thanks, Sergio you´re a legend. If Obsidian has easy-to-use databases, then the last argument for Notion is gone. It´s crazy; even Notion I discovered not very long time ago and thought it´s fantastic. But felt limited quite quickly. The Freedom and flexibility in Obsidian are just next level

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

Well said! Notion, at times, feels like a creativity jail of sorts. Their approach is one of using it *their* way, which is fine for many people but for those of us that want more freedom and flexibility Obsidian is second to none!

@pepperleg

Жыл бұрын

Came here to say this. My final reason for using notion just disappeared.

@pepperleg

Жыл бұрын

@@FromSergio Problem is yes the creativity jail but also the SLOW jail. It's like being in prison on a super-slow treadmill when you just want to run.

After a month research of obsidian, I think you contents are the best, easy to understand, not too complex like other channel, video not too long, and show some step by step.

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you're enjoying them! Thanks for the kind words, they mean alot! :)

This is a game changer, this is exactly what ive wanted

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

I hardly ever use that expression, but this indeed is one!

OMG! Thank you so much for this information! Quering dataview has been a big pain in my a** and now it's solved :)

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped! :)

Thank you both so much!! This is what I was missing from Obsidian. * goes to download it right away* 😁😁

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful, enjoy! :)

Hi Sergio, Congratulations for your KZread Channel: High quality content with no BS at all!! This is one of the best channels about Obsidian content, if not the best. Thank you and please keep up with your excellent work!

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time Luiz, much appreciated! Will do :)

one of my firsts channels about obsidian. Thanks for the info!! the database plugin are greeeeat!

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

Thanks, Sergio. You consistently deliver some of the best Obsidian content on KZread. Well-written with great examples.

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words Ryan really appreciate it!

Hey Sergio, Thanks for posting this video. I have been waiting for quite sometime on how I can manage and track habits that I want in my life. Their are so many options you can use with this plugin. I just subscribed to you as well. You're explanation video's really help me as I am new to Obsidian and working my way in it. Have a good day :)

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I have a video dedicated to the tracker plugin which I think you’ll really like then! Should be uploaded this weekend or monday!

Tags sold it for me. Thanks for showing this off!

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

More is on the way ;)

Ive been using obsidian for my dnd notes. Thus will be so useful for lots of things

wow, obsidian is getting super powers thanks to the great community of developers and users (I used to be notion user for 1 year)

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

I was a Notion user for a couple years, 3 i think? I’ve just completed 2 years in Obsidian and it’s light years ahead and it’s all thanks to the community like you said! :)

Yes! I'm gonna look more into it. I love making "databases".

00:01 Notion databases in Obsidian using the Database Folder plugin 00:48 Creating a Notion database in Obsidian 01:30 Convert folder into a database to get organized structure. 02:16 Notion Databases in Obsidian can automatically create a YAML header for new columns in the notes. 03:05 Notion databases can be added in Obsidian 03:51 Notion Databases In Obsidian 04:41 Notion Databases in Obsidian allows you to organize notes using tags instead of folders 05:28 Notion Databases in Obsidian is an exciting plugin with potential for growth. Crafted by Merlin AI.

Thanks for the call on this one. I will check it out. Thank you also for your vids, as always :)

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Fuentes! Always a pleasure to see your comments!

Enfin l'argument qui va me faire adopter obsidian

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

Enfin! :)

This is great!! Thank you for sharing it!❤

Another great video. Thanks for the work.

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it :)

Thank you for this guide! It has been really helpful. Also, your YAML video was clear.

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

Thanks JAke, glad it was helpful!

This is so powerful, thanks for a another great video!

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

Wooow

Very cool, thanks for sharing! :)

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

Brilliant video - thank you for sharing

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ed! :)

oh my god thank you Sergio and Rafael . I m sure that Kara del Toro watches you and will use obsidian thanks to u !

This is so helpful - Is this essentially a substitute for using the output of Dataview with Dataview itself or do you find that using Dataview without the Notion Databases and using Notion Databases would be useful in different contexts? - I'm very excited to try this out!

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

I use them both for now but since this seems to be a common question, if there's interest I'll happily make a video on it :)

Thank you

Great!

hi, i would like to combine this plugin with projects. So i need to have the date format like that : YYYY-MM-DD, so that Projects and Dbfolder have the same syntax. That 's why i specify the exact syntax in the parameters of dbfolder (in the section "configuration about editing engine" : yyyy-MM-dd) Still, in the yaml, format date looks always like : 2023-02-19T00:00:00.000+01:00 what can i do to have a format like 2023-02-19 ? thank you very much

Thanks

Thank you for this great video! I've been thinking of a way to implement August Bradley's "PPV" System in Obsidian using the "Databases" community plugin and other plugins, but as a beginner user of Obsidian, I find it confusing. I'm wondering if you could create a step-by-step guide on how to achieve the same functionalities and appearance of the complete PPV System in Obsidian, as we can do in Notion. I'm sure many people are struggling with this. Thank you!

@docrafaleituga

7 ай бұрын

Yes! Definitely! That would be great. Thank you

Oh wow I am just finding out about this plugin from your video. Obsidian is really shaping up to be my second brain.

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! Have a great one :)

Home come when you created the recommendedby column the info wasn't already filled in? The book 1984 already had these properties...

woww awesome plugin, thank you too for the video

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it :)

This is pretty cool 🤩

Thank you for this video Sergio. I have not idea if you will see this, but I'm trying to have the book covers show on this DB Folder, but the media doesn't seem to fit the row height. I have poked around a lot and haven't been able to find a solution to this. (So basically, I want to be able to see the full book cover in this view if possible) Any Ideas on what to do here?

Thank you sooo! Your extremely great! Thanks for all your great work!

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Alejandro! :)

@alejandroarizaz.5796

2 жыл бұрын

@@FromSergio By the way... it is a shame that this upgrade does not working in the app. :( Around this experiences is when Craft or Notion are saying "Hellooo"... isnt it?

AMAZING!!

Really nice, thank you ! Would you make a video on the Tracker plugin or the Heatmap Calendar plugin ?

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion! I have that on my list as well. I have been keeping an eye on it for a long time now making sure stability is not a concern before I invest into making a video on it. (Just like I did with this one!)

How, Sergio. Thanks so much for your videos. I loved this plug-in, but I have a question: do you or anyone in the comments know if I can sum all the velues for a given colum like one does in Excel? Not being able or not knowing how to do that is the only thing keeping me from transfering my long, long book library to Obsidian. I like to know how many pages I've read in a year or even in my lifetime, and being able to do math operations with the colums is a must. Thanks so much.

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

Hi Ademilson - I don't believe that's a feature yet, you could always propose this to rafael, he made a comment in this video as well that I pinned.

Very cool

Bless!

How can I order folders?, when i click on "change the order", it only change the order of NOTES, but, not of FOLDERS.

Subbed!

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

:)

Thanks Sergio for the great video. That's it! A game changer, definitely what I needed. Especially the filters are great. Sergio do you know where I can change the alignment of the columns? Standard is centered what drives me nuts :-) I'd prefer a left alignment. Could you help?

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Marc! I believe that's a feature that's coming still(maybe you can ask rafael, he left a coment). But I believe the plugin is still in its early stages and will get a lot more refined as the months go by. Hope this helps!

@MarcKoschel

Жыл бұрын

@@FromSergio Thanx a lot! I 'll ask Rafael ans I will be patient 🙂

Recently entertained the idea of switching from Notion to Obsidian, this might very well be the tipping point I needed. One thing though, I can’t seem to find any guide on youtube on how to export Notion files/pages to Obsidian ! Is it possible to do ? 2. I mainly write in english, but sometimes write a note/page in my second language. I was worried it would make the obsidian benefit (interlinking notes and ideas) useless. I’m aware I’m new to this and might be overthinking, is there a solution? Thanks for the great content, definitely subbed !

@DavidEsp1

2 жыл бұрын

Same thinking. Websearch revealed 1 or 2 relevant looking projects on GitHub but they predate this new feature. Should we wait?

@yannickhs7100

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidEsp1 yes exactly what I thought !

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

@Yannick Hs, I am not aware of a way to seamlessly migrate (maybe someone can chime in). I was also predominately a notion user until I discovered Obsidian roughly 2 years ago. When I was faced with this exact problem I decided to just migrate manually, which is obviously not ideal, but it also served as a way to go over nearly everything that I had and helped me declutter my files a bit. Best of luck :)

@bowreality1564

Жыл бұрын

Have you found anything? I am switching from Notion to Obsidian which is amazing. I am just struggling on getting the content over. So far copying and pasting note by note but boy that’s a lot of work. Sergio, another amazing video. Thank you very much

@bowreality1564

Жыл бұрын

I actually found a way to import a folder of files that I exported from Notion. When you go back to “open folder as vault” you can import these files. They aren’t clean though. They need some fixing. To move from that new vault to an existing vault you can copy and paste!

So is this basically like an easier to use dataview plugin?

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

I'd say there's pros and cons to each! I'm currently using both in different ways, the fact that its tied to a folder is enough of a reason for many to prefer dataview.

hey Could you insert in the column option for linking between pages(notes) ? What I mean by that is incase I have a book's DB and each field is a book -> inside each book page there is a summary of the book, however I'd like to connect it with another page for "my book's favorite quotes" and I want to see this note as well here on the DB plugin. In case not - can I make this in regular Dataview table ? (as you made in "Book Library - How To Track Books in Obsidian") Many thanks

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

Hi If I understand your question correctly you can use simple markdown syntax for this such as ![[yourbooksDB#favoritequotes]] This will embed it into the table. Let me know if I misunderstood your question

Is it possible for it to add the book cover automatically by pullign it from some where?

Basically this plugin is an automated dataview plugin ? i've already setuped a dataview library for my mangas, books and authors but this is so much easier to use and faster... the community of obsidian is filled with incredible people for real

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

They serve different purposes, I actually use both in very different ways and I plan on making a video on that very topic!

@kannonfps

Жыл бұрын

@@FromSergio Oh yeah yeah definitly, i still use dataview on a pretty much everything else apart from books/authors and mangas for the moment, this database folder plugins is really amazing for that and ill be on the lookout for your video on how you use both

Wow!

yea but you still need to create a subfolder and put all your notes inside for them to appear in the database.. instead for example pull in any notes with a specific tag regardless of their location, THAT would be so much more useful.

@taimaishu99

11 ай бұрын

4:27 is exactly that if I'm not mistaken

What do you think about this Plugin vs Projects plugin ?

I'm really new in Obsidian, I would like to add a meta tag for the number of books each author have, how could we do that? Thank you

Hello! Does this allow for different views as well like notion does? Like switching from a calendar type to a kanban board or the like. Thank you!

Hey Sergio, Love! your videos I have recommended them to a number of people getting started in Obsidian . Q: Do you have a resource or tutorial you can suggest for using the formula property type in DB Folder I'm trying to do some simple calculations with field values like calculate the tax bases on the price of a line item, I don't know javascript but want to learn it for this purpose I've gone over the DB folder documentation several times but I can not seem to get it work. it seems to be written for somebody who is already very familiar with JS syntax. Thanks

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

Fireship has a good JS course!

Is it possible have a database like this, but for clickable tasks? Thats one of the main use cases I can’t seem to find in obsidian which was a major feature of notion that I used.

I have another question regarding this tool. I and others have had questions regarding how to implement a quotes system where various quotes (like business quotes) could be entered (or better yet uploaded) somewhere and then some DB query code used to display a random quote every day. Any idea how to do this if someone already had a fairly long list of quotes in say an excel file? Thanks

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

There's a few options that come to mind but I don't think they are exactly what you're looking for. You can use the local quotes plugin which pulls from a quote folder in your vault and displays them wherever you want upon command. However, last I checked this plugin didn't support a random variable. Or you can do exactly what you want but not with obsidian and instead with readwise, which is a paid service.

@ksoonsoon

2 жыл бұрын

@@FromSergio I did some research on the existing quote plug ins and from my perspective the documentation is not very clear for the non-programmer type of user. Would be better to see more examples and to see them in action on actual notes as well. One of the few challenges with obsidian is that there are some many dev type using the product and creating plugins, it make it challenging for common business people to use the products.

I wish this worked without folders because my workflow uses links instead so I can have notes in multiple categories at once were I could put it at the top of a hierarchy and everything bellow would be put into the database Edit 4:30 I just saw that I can omg

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

:)

what abaut (Notion-Like Tables)??

Can this do nested tables? Like a table within a table within another table?

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

I'm afraid not!

As a notion user may I ask why this should be better than notion? Is there a way to have relational database in obsidian?

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

If you're happy with notion you should definitely stick with it. Obsidian offers numerous advantages that I've covered throughout my series. Relational databases are not yet available but they are on the roadmap which you can find in the repo for this plugin, which is also in the description of this video

Hello, can you add math formulas ?

This plug in not working in the version 1 of Obsidian

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

Hi David, it also broke for me, which I'm not surprised since obsidian got a major update. I'm sure Rafael is aware of it and will probably push an update soon.

I have installed the Database Folder, but doesn't at all =(

Thanks for the video. How can I add specific metadatas or tags to a bunch of notes?

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

Do you mean in a batch type of way?

@mohammadkamelan1047

Жыл бұрын

@@FromSergio thanks for the reply. I want to add specific category to my library notes in yaml format. I'm looking for a way to add this category to all of my book notes.

@FromSergio I'm not able to reorder the columns; is this by design?

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

I don't think it's by design, so it is probably fixed in the next update :)

I am trying to get this working and very close to what I want, but I have 2 issues not with the database, but with the YAML metadata: For my tags, I use something similar to Bryan Jenks system using emojis, database recognizes them and all good but on the folder my metadata looks weird and doesn't show emojis. And 2, is there any way to have clickable [[links]] in my YAML header when I'm reading my file ?

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

Hi Yannick, 1 - I know what you are referring to with regards to Bryan's emoji system, I don't however know of the problem you're describing. 2 - You cannot. Last I checked this is an active feature request on the obsidian forums.

I'm trying to transition to Obsidian from Notion but it's challenging when things don't work with third party plugins

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

I use both and made a video on it. I 100% understand where you're coming from though

Is there a way for me to pull in / Embed a notion Database into here? Thanks

@FromSergio

11 ай бұрын

Afraid not!

Can this be considered a replacement for the data view plugin?

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

It sure can, I make use of both for different needs (future video), but you can absolutely use only the db folder plugin

Can you connect the databases the tracker plugin ?

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

Unsure of what you mean?

@ivaylodoshkov3128

Жыл бұрын

Can you connect the database table ( shown in the video) to the tracker plugin so you get stats from the database.

All Obsidian needs is cloze option now.

There was no information on how to make relational database.

Can we sync a Notion database to Obsidian?

@FromSergio

11 ай бұрын

Afraid not!

I need something like this for Canvas not Notes

Can you import your notion notes or db?

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

I don't think so

@coolreyno

Жыл бұрын

@@FromSergio what would it take for me to work with you 1:1 setting up my Notion or/and Obsidian?

Dataview seems better, especially if you know JavaScript, HTML, CSS.

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

They each have their pros and cons. I've been making use of both for now!

Why does your table look clean and tidy, mine looks like drawn by a 3 year old, the style and appearance is hideous.

It works but it isn't sexy as in notion. My wife will not accept that 😅

Bro, please zoom in on what you are typing. It's too small to watch and replicate. 😭

@FromSergio

2 жыл бұрын

Reference some timestamps where you are unable to read what I'm typing. Also - Are you watching in 4k? If you turn 4k on, does it solve it?

Many thanks for the video but I gotta ask why you put your face in such a big settings. It's kinda distracting from what you are actually saying

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

I 100% agree, I've since fixed this :)

From Turkey Hi, İt's ver useful thanks.

@FromSergio

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks