Using Obsidian DATAVIEW to Build Folder Indexes and Maps of Content

parazettel.com... - head here to check out the PARAZETTEL system that I mentioned in this video - a fusion of Tiago Forte's PARA Method and Niklas Luhmann's Zettelkasten.
• The Most UNDERRATED Ob... - Here's the prior video on the plugin Folder notes if you want to watch and then come back to this one.
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[@derrecklandon7944]

Thanks Theo I enjoyed seeing your use case for data view. Looking forward to watching more of the videos!

[@fundamentalised]

Thanks for watching! I've just finished my literature review for university today so there'll be more videos coming in the future now

[@glensavory11]

Thanks Theo for showing me a new level of organisation in my Obsidian. I get how the syntax needs to be, but writing it goes over my head a little. Thus, I've gone to ChatGPT 4 and asked for an Obsidian expert. I have explained what I want, and through experimentation I have a good result. So far, for each folder, I have a File, Folder, Hastag, Created, and Last Modified table. I specified the date format to make it compact, and I have specified removal of the parent folder - as you say it's a redundancy. I will try the pulling together of multi-areas as you have in your contents folder.

[@fundamentalised]

I'm glad that it's helped you and that you've taken the initiative to work out how things are supposed be laid out. If you do want to ask any more questions, you can send me an email as well at [e-mail] and I can help you out!

[@glensavory11]

@@fundamentalised Thanks Theo.

[@Gustafonair]

I for one, being new to Obsidian, like that you went into detail, albeit I tend to watch in 2x, and skipped around to parts relevant to me. I agree with the other comment that it is likely to have better reach if it were denser, but it seems to me that wasn't what you were going for here. Thanks for the videos, I will definitely use both plugins

[@fundamentalised]

Thank you! I think that's the aim I have been going for, seeing as if I don't go in depth enough and miss details then people will be left wondering. I appreciate you watching and leaving a comment!

[@maksadTohBhoolChuka]

hey is there a way in obsidian to have tables like what we have as lists in slack channels ? Basically creating a table within a note where a column can have datatypes like date, select dropdown, checkbox, etc.

[@fundamentalised]

I see what you mean - where you can specify the sort of data that's there to select from. You can edit this metadata in each note - you can add a 'date' property, for example, and select off a calendar specifically, or add a checkbox property that can either be yes/no, or add a list property that you can select multiple values from a drop-down list for. Although you can't edit this in the table directly, you can use the plugin dataview to create a table based on these properties. I'll make a video soon about using properties in Obsidian notes and what you can do with this data. Hope this helps a little bit. Thanks for watching!

[@maksadTohBhoolChuka]

@@fundamentalised thnx for responding and hey a video for that will be really helpful. I always wanted to have tables in my note where you can do these stuff.