Obsidian Bases, published

Bases turn your Obsidian vault into a database. Flowershow publishes those databases to the web — tables, cards, lists, filters, formulas and all. Here's everything you need to know.

What is Obsidian Bases?

Bases is a core Obsidian feature that lets you query and display your notes as structured data. Think of it like a lightweight database built from your frontmatter properties — filter by date, status, or any property; display results as a table, card gallery, or list; and compute new values with formulas.

Where most tools stop at rendering markdown, Flowershow goes further — your Bases render on your published site exactly as they appear in Obsidian.

Getting started

Bases blocks are parsed in MDX mode. To make them work on your Flowershow site, add one line to your page frontmatter:

---
title: My reading list
syntaxMode: mdx
---

```base
...your base query here
```

Or set it globally for your whole site in your config.json. See the syntax mode docs for details.

What's supported

Everything you need for real-world use works today.

📋 Table viewRows, property columns, and built-in summaries: sum, average, min, max, median, standard deviation, range, earliest, latest, checked/unchecked, empty/filled, unique.

🃏 Cards viewGallery grid with configurable card size, image support (local attachments and URLs), image fit and aspect ratio control, and hex colour card backgrounds.

📝 List viewBulleted or numbered list of your filtered note set. Simple, fast, and great for indexes and reading lists.

🔍 FiltersFilter with and, or, not logic. All comparison operators (==, !=, >, <, >=, <=) and boolean operators (!, &&, ||) supported.

🧮 FormulasArithmetic (+, -, *, /, %), full date functions (format, relative, today, now), string operations (contains, lower, replace, split, trim), number functions (abs, ceil, floor, round), and list operations (map, filter, sort, join).

📁 File propertiesAccess file.name, file.path, file.folder, file.ext, file.size, file.hasProperty(), and file.inFolder() in your queries.

Coming soon

A few advanced features are still in progress:

  • —Map view (display notes as pins on interactive maps)
  • —Date arithmetic (add/subtract durations)
  • —File metadata: ctime, mtime, backlinks, tags, embeds
  • —Custom summary formulas

We track Obsidian Bases development closely and ship support as features stabilise. Watch the blog for updates.

Ready to publish your Bases?

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