Highlights

• 7 views — Table, Board (Kanban), Gallery, List, Calendar, Timeline (Gantt), Chart
• 18 column types — Title, Text, Number, Select, Multi-select, Checkbox, Date, URL, Email, Phone, Status, Formula, Relation, Lookup, Rollup, Image, Audio, Video
• Charts — Bar, line, and pie charts with configurable axes, aggregations, and smart formatting — pure SVG, zero dependencies
• Subtasks — Hierarchical rows with expand/collapse, up to 3 levels deep, powered by self-relation columns
• Rollup columns — Aggregate values across related databases with 7 functions (sum, count, avg, min, max, count_values, list)
• Formula engine — Spreadsheet-style functions: IF, SUM, AVG, CONCAT, LEFT, ROUND, and many more
• Relations & Lookups — Link rows across databases and pull values from related notes
• Advanced filters — Type-aware operators with AND/OR logic
• 100% local Markdown — Every row is a .md file, every column is a frontmatter field. No lock-in, no cloud, no telemetry

Why Notion Bases?

Obsidian's built-in Bases plugin is great for tables and has its own expression-based formula system. Notion Bases focuses on a different set of trade-offs — more views, more column types, and a spreadsheet-style formula syntax.

Views

Notion Bases offers 5 exclusive views that Core Bases doesn't have — Board, Gallery, Calendar, Timeline, and Chart — giving you the flexibility to visualize data the way that fits your workflow.

Data modeling

With relation and lookup columns, you can link databases together and pull values across notes — just like Notion. The spreadsheet-style formula syntax is familiar to anyone who has used Excel or Google Sheets.

Table experience

Both plugins let you resize, reorder columns and adjust row height. Notion Bases goes further with column pinning, text wrap, a persistent aggregation footer, multi-column sort with drag-to-reorder priority, CSV import/export, and bulk row actions.

Shared features

If you ever wished Obsidian had Notion-level databases without leaving your vault, this is it.

Views

Table

A fully interactive spreadsheet: inline editing, resizable/reorderable/pinnable columns, aggregation footer, row height options, text wrap, multi-column sort, and bulk row actions.

Board (Kanban)

Drag cards between columns grouped by any select or status field. Add cards directly to a column. Hide empty or no-value columns. Configure which properties appear on each card.

Gallery

A responsive card grid. Pick a cover field, choose card size (small / medium / large), and display any properties below the title.

List

A minimal, single-line view — title plus property chips. Great for quick overviews and task-oriented databases.

Calendar

Monthly calendar. Position notes by any date field. Click a day to create a note with the date pre-filled. Notes without a date appear in a collapsible section.

Timeline (Gantt)

Horizontal bar chart with three zoom levels (days / weeks / months). Drag bar edges to resize start or end dates. Group rows by any field.

Chart

Bar, line, and pie charts rendered as pure SVG. Pick a category column (X axis), choose count or a number column (Y axis), and select an aggregation function. Smart axis formatting with k/M suffixes and integer ticks. Responsive sizing and full mobile support.

Features

Column types

Getting started

Installation

Note: Notion Bases is not yet available in Obsidian's Community Plugins directory. For now, use one of the methods below.

Via BRAT (recommended)

1. Install BRAT from Community Plugins
2. Open BRAT settings → Add Beta plugin
3. Paste: bgarciamoura/obsidian-notion-bases-plugin
4. Enable Notion Bases in Settings → Community plugins

Manual installation

1. Download main.js, manifest.json and styles.css from the latest release
2. Create <your-vault>/.obsidian/plugins/notion-bases/
3. Copy the three files into it
4. Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin in Settings → Community plugins

Create your first database

1. Open the command palette (Ctrl/Cmd + P) → "Create new database"
2. Pick a folder — a _database.md file marks it as a database
3. Click the table icon in the ribbon (or run "Open database") to open it

Add views

Click + in the view tab bar to add a new view. Each view has its own filters, sorts and field visibility. Drag tabs to reorder.

Embed in a note

```nb-database
path: Projects
```

Pin a fixed view type (no tabs):

```nb-database
path: Projects
type: table
```

How data is stored

Everything lives in your vault as plain Markdown:

Open any file in any text editor and your data is right there.

Requirements

• Obsidian 1.4.0 or later
• Desktop and mobile supported

Support the project

If Notion Bases makes your vault more powerful, consider supporting development:

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read the Contributing Guide before submitting a pull request.

For bugs and feature requests, use the issue tracker.

License

GPL v3 — free to use and modify, but any distribution must remain open source under the same license.