The Dataview page will be expanded over time with new examples
Dataview
— is one of the most powerful plugins for Obsidian.
It turns your notes into a dynamic database — tables, lists, galleries and much more.
It works through simple queries in its own mini-language.
🔎 What can you do with Dataview?
- 📚 Keep a list of books you’re reading (or just plan to)
- 🎬 Keep a database of shows/films, marking what you’ve already watched
- ✅ Track your projects and their stages (Kanban, GTD)
- 🗓 Keep a journal that sorts itself by date
- 💡 Automatically display fleeting notes from
/Inbox
💡 A practical example: “Shows”
I have shows, and in them I write characteristics like:
- rating
- poster
- insight
These files are stored in the folder: /Areas/Shows
- I also have a note “My shows” and I inserted the following Dataview code into it:
dataview
TABLE WITHOUT ID
file.link AS "Show",
Rating,
("![](" + Poster + ")") as Poster,
Insight
FROM "2. Areas/Shows and films/7. Shows"
WHERE !contains(file.name, "My shows")
🔥 Done: now you have an automatic table of shows, sorted by rating.
✨ To make the sorting clickable — install the Sortable tables plugin.
🧠 Another example — fleeting notes
You keep an /Inbox folder where you quickly save ideas.
And you want to see the last 5:
🏷 Notes with the todo hashtag
You marked that you want to come back to important thoughts.
You add the #todo tag — and they appear in a special note:
📦 Installation:
- Open
Settings→Community plugins - Enable it and click
Browse - Find “Dataview”
- Install and activate
🎯 Hint: be sure the folder path in from is exact and matches your Vault structure.
Keep going?