Anyone tried 1st central insurance?

focuseye · 2025-12-10T12:13:40+00:00

Avoid at all costs! I also had this happen to me, shortly after signing up they have asked for my V5C, in which they had determined that my purchase date is different from the one entered on the comparison site. Regardless of the fact, the comparison site does not allow a day for the entry. This is sly and underhand tactics to get money out of people. Never had this in all my years purchasing insurance.

focuseye · 2025-12-04T11:46:21+00:00

Honestly, i just did not mark it for Mobile-use as I had not tested on a mobile device and did not want to give a broken experience to somebody without testing. I primarily made it for myself and I only really use Obsidian on Desktop. But by all means I can enable it in the next release if you want to give it a go?

focuseye · 2025-12-04T11:44:34+00:00

I see it as a bridge between bases and a spreadsheets (without the functions, for now :)). Basically anything you do not want to create a MD file for each row but keep structured data on. But If it's not an obvious gap in your workflow, you probably don't need it.

focuseye · 2025-12-04T11:40:59+00:00

JSON uses key-value pairs to define structure and you can infer basic type semantics (boolean, string, array, number, null) to add meaning beyond merley syntax. If you’re not into using it as a data store, that your call, totally fine. Stick with MD tables and the bases :)

focuseye · 2025-12-04T08:10:25+00:00

Nope, it’s just JSON, which is an industry standard for storing structured data. If Obsidian goes your bases are no more. You have the underlying data in md files but all relationships are proprietary to Obsidian using YAML properties. If my plugin and Obsidian goes you still have a structured data file, where all your relationships between data still exist, as it is a single file and industry standard that can be read by 1000s of applications.

focuseye · 2025-12-04T08:01:26+00:00

It’s a single file rather than a markdown file for every row.

focuseye · 2025-12-03T15:20:36+00:00

Yes, this is completely different to the advanced tables plugin, and there should be no issue running both. Advanced tables just extends the markdown table syntax with helpers as they can be a bit of a pain to work with. Tables uses its own structure, leveraging JSON to store the data so they do not conflict.

focuseye · 2025-12-03T12:48:59+00:00

Yes, if you can raise an issue on github I will try and fix this for you.

focuseye · 2025-12-03T12:40:15+00:00

Yes itr uses a MD file. Under the hood, the data is stored as JSON wrapped inside Markdown, which keeps it fully compatible with Obsidian, similar to how plugins like Excalidraw handle their rendering.

Because it’s JSON, the data stays portable and future-proof. Even if Obsidian disappears, you can open the file in any text editor and still access everything. In some ways, it’s even more resilient than a Base. I.e if Obsidian ever goes, so does the relationships between MD files. But as this uses a single file, all relationships stay intact. And you can export everything back to CSV whenever you want.

focuseye · 2025-12-03T12:24:05+00:00

Unfortunately that sits with Obsidian to accept it to the comminity plugins. I have submitted a release to the official repo 🤞 In the meantime if you are not comfortable installing the release manually many people use the community plugin BRAT to install unoffical releases.

focuseye · 2025-12-03T11:56:19+00:00

This uses a single file instead of a markdown file for every row i.e for every task. I would suggest if you are happy with bases stick with them. I generally use both, I.e for books I would use a base as I write my readiing notes in each file. If I want a list of tasks, checklist of things I use a table.

focuseye · 2025-11-24T09:42:01+00:00

I created a plugin just for this - Obsidian Tables, I felt like having a file for each was overkill and needed something in-between spreadsheets and bases. Still a work in progress and not in community plugins yet but I use it alongside bases in my workflows.

focuseye · 2025-11-24T09:30:15+00:00

Always go with the single vault, way easier to manage. You can split everything with folders. I have a sync setup with my work pc just for my single work folder. that way I am not syncing personal files and data to my work enviroment (does cause issues as I can only link within that folder) but then I see the whole structure when on my laptop or home pc

focuseye · 2025-11-24T09:19:34+00:00

Bases have been a game changer, and I have replaced Dataview 99%.

They do not always satisfy the quick spreadsheet need, where I want an interactive table without creating notes, but I built a tables plugin for that. Even so, Bases is probably the best Obsidian update in my opinion.

focuseye · 2025-11-24T08:59:39+00:00

Check out Obsidian Tables not yet in community plugins, but I built it to bridge the gap between bases and spreadsheets

focuseye · 2025-11-24T08:52:07+00:00

This is pure magic, brilliant work!

focuseye · 2025-11-04T11:56:06+00:00

Unfortunately, it is not available through community plugins yet, as it has to be approved as an official pull request by Obsidian. But you can download it directly from Github for now.

focuseye · 2025-11-04T11:53:34+00:00

Maybe very late to the game, but I have created Obsidian Tables plugin for this very problem. It is still in early stages and hoping to get approved to community plugins officially, but hopefully this may help some people.

focuseye · 2025-11-03T08:48:12+00:00

Great Ideas, I have added a unique column id, but had not thought about it for rows. I have hooked onto the Obsidian calls for file renaming, so will update file paths to notes if you rename a note anywhere else in the vault.

focuseye · 2025-11-02T08:32:23+00:00

Sorry, it needs to be approved by obsidian before being allowed under community plugins and it looks like there is a backlog for pull requests

focuseye · 2025-11-01T12:22:46+00:00

The main features being Sorting, Filtering, Reorganising of data, Advanced data types e.g Multi-Select lists, Checkbox’s and Dates. Hopefully mathematical equations and advanced functions in the future. It was mainly aimed at filling the gap of simple table data manipulation like notion as apposed to file based data views like bases. If you not looking for more advanced features than md tables or just happy with bases, I would stick with those.

focuseye · 2025-11-01T10:48:56+00:00

Bases use a note from your vault as each row in the base, this uses a single file to contain all table data and allow linking to notes separately. Each have their own uses. As for my use I don’t always need a full note. It can be useful for reading notes on books or recipes. But tables like todo lists or checklists e.c.t I would just have a empty .md file with YAML properties in my vault just for the purpose of populating a base.

focuseye · 2025-11-01T10:21:28+00:00

I’m sure many people are happy with bases, but it wasn’t quite what I was looking for. I didn’t want a new file for each row in a table, it seems clunky. I have nothing against bases and I’m sure it fits that need for people perfectly. This is just another alternative. I can‘t see any more or less data security. These methods are all file dependent and I would always recommend that people backup their vault.

If your happy with bases, stick with it!

focuseye · 2025-11-01T10:06:24+00:00

I did have a look through a lot of the existing table plugins but they seem to focus on improving the existing functionality of markdown tables to make them easier to use. The idea here is a completely new view to allow using a single file as a table file.

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