neuron VS obsidian-dataview

Have you considered neuron or it's successor emanote?

It requires the neuron binary to be installed.

You can use vim-plug (or whatever) to get neuron.nvim, but neuron.nvim depends on neuron, which AFAICT, you have to pull from the GH Releases page or use nix to install: https://neuron.zettel.page/install.

zk also interoperates with neuron (of which I'm the author!).

https://neuron.zettel.page :: CLI+webUI

You can set up a git repo and use emanote or it’s predecessor nueron to set up the GitHub pages for free. But both projects have some issues rendering the Obsidian flavor markdown files (translutions, block reference etc.) compared with Obsidian Publish.

I use https://neuron.zettel.page/ for long lived things, and things I want to explore more visually. It has great emacs support, stores everything in .md, and auto generates the same site as what you can see on their website.

Bases seem like a great alternative to Dataview [0] but better supported and with simpler syntax than literally writing inline JavaScript for more complicated stuff.

You can also export your table as CVS and they plan to properly support Obsidian Publish which was never supported in Dataview.

[0]: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview, I was a big fan but it seems the author has stopped actively developing it at some point which is a shame.

Using Dataview, an Obsidian plugin that allows me to query and display content dynamically based on metadata, I can track posts in different stages of completion, identify missing translations, and view related notes.

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.

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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

- Use dataview or graphs for views

- There are even plugins to define buttons and the actions they perform, if you need commands

At the end of the day, I use Dataview, a plugin for Obsidian, which allows me to make queries to my notes similar to SQL to visualize the collected information:

https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview

This whole ideas to have data, visualisations and knowledge base in one private offline place is very appealing

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 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)

Refer: Obsidian Search, How I Use Embedded Queries, Dataview, Excalibrain

Ref: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview/issues/544 (Bearbeitet)

For using it, having SQL or JavaScript knowledge is useful, but you can probably figure it out without that knowledge. The Github page has a lot of examples that you can cannabalize for simple things without really getting too deep into it.