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		lazzlazzlazz 45 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Obsidian Bases I believe the Bases are Markdown files that contain filters for other Markdown files. So it's still all Markdown. Amazing actually.

dtkav 45 days ago [–]

Obsidian markdown has "frontmatter" which is yaml before the markdown file.

A .base file is a query written in yaml that aggregates frontmatter values across many .md files into a table view.

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