My notes became my database overnight, and that was enough to make another paid app disappear.

XDA Developers

Obsidian's new Bases feature turns markdown notes into a structured database view, allowing users to filter, sort, and group notes by metadata without leaving the app. The author replaced a separate paid database app with Bases after finding it covered all their practical needs — project tracking, article ideas, and reading lists — while keeping all data in plain markdown files. The key advantages are a single source of truth, no proprietary lock-in, automatic sync between notes and views, and elimination of the overhead of maintaining two separate systems.

I ditched my database app after Obsidian added one feature, and I'm not paying for separate tools anymore

Bases feels like spreadsheets built on top of markdown

The biggest advantage is that nothing lives outside my notes

I stopped maintaining two different systems

<p>This indeed looks like something that might push me towards migrating to Obsidian instead of VS Code that I use today for my daily notes…</p>


<p>Plain markdown files as the storage layer is a stroke of genius. It means I can script against my data, grep it, version it in Git, and use it in other tools. No API rate limits, no export hassles.</p>
