I've been very impressed with Obsidian bases.
It's added to my "PKMS" (Personal Knowledge Management System - i.e. big pile of wiki-style notes in PARA folders in a vault (a folder) - such grand names for everything), and I'm looking to move my goodreads list into it.
This is a side-quest from the getting-things-done productivity, into more of the knowledge management, but it can also feed into the todos with properties representing states such as books waiting to be read.
I've recorded a concise demo vid (edited down from 26 mins of raw recording to 6 mins published to save your valuable time from all my thinking and mis-steps).
Take a look at it here, part of my growing "productivity" series on youtube:
It really is very simple, and you don't even have to write the yml as obsidian does that with a nice point-n-drool UI.
A book note with frontmatter
---
book_status: want-to-read
via: podcast
goodreads:
amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Take-Smart-Notes-Technique/dp/3982438802
audible:
author: "[[People/Sönke Ahrens]]"
---
some notes on the book
[[Zettlekasten]] is a bit like trying to invent a [[wiki]] when all you have is pen and paper.
core concept of zettlekasten - raw atomic ideas with references, plus layers of digested thinking in ever increasing length, resulting in "writing" a long paper or article being more a case of stitching together all the raw material writing from the lower layers. useful bookA book frontmatter template
to make it easy to add properties (frontmatter) to new/existing book notes:
---
book_status:
via:
goodreads:
amazon:
audible:
author:
---And the .base file
that obsidian magically renders into a dynamic, editable, filterable spreadsheet-like view:
views:
- type: table
name: Table
filters:
and:
- file.inFolder("Books")
order:
- book_status
- file.name
- author
- via
columnSize:
note.author: 193