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by alostpuppy 538 days ago
What would you use this feature for?
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Basically what parent said, little personal database tables. Example: I have a list of 100 movies I want to see, and I have columns like date watched, year released, should I rewatch again in 10 years, notes, etc. I want to be able to do two things:

1. Sort/filter by columns (ex: status = not watched)

2. Add markdown like "[[Steve]] told me to watch this" and have backlinks etc. work seamlessly with the rest of my notes.

I know you can do that with Obsidian "properties" but I don't want 100 separate files for my to-watch list.

And I've tried a few of the Obsidian database plugins too, but as far as keyboard usability none of them came close to VisiData or LibreOffice.

I think this all works out of the box with logseq.

You can create a movie template with a few props then put them anywhere and then tabularise all the entries with a query.