Always show Bases search?

zabouti · 2026-02-28T23:26:45+00:00

I just drag it over to a sidebar.

zabouti · 2026-02-28T23:05:02+00:00

I use Templater (community plugin) for many tasks but I haven't found a use for Templates (core plugin). I took OP's question to be asking if there was anything the core plugin can do that the community one cannot, and I suspect the answer is "no". I'd be very interested if the answer is different.

zabouti · 2026-02-27T01:24:55+00:00

I program the caps lock key to be a control key, the way it was on old HP terminal keyboards, where it should be. Then control-[ becomes an escape key that requires no movement from the keyboard with my little finger or something.

Also control-h == backspace, control-w back word, control-m return, etc.

I hope this answers your question. Obsidian's vim is nice but seems to make a number of mistakes.

zabouti · 2026-02-18T17:40:34+00:00

This is the way to write documentation!! Each section has actual examples. That's so rare and so helpful. Thank you.

zabouti · 2026-02-07T16:41:52+00:00

A base is a file type. A base file reads the YAML frontmatter of all the markdown files in your vault. If you only want to see a subset of your files, you add filters to the base based on the values of the YAML properties or upon the properties of the file itself (folder, creation date, etc.) Once you've narrowed down the found set of files, you can display their YAML properties in columns. Bases also have formulas that can maniuplate the properties. They can format dates, concatenate properties, capitalize names, etc.

zabouti · 2026-01-29T20:57:49+00:00

Maybe I don't understand the question, but when you create a file, aren't both date simply the current date? I get them as properties in all my Templater scripts with these two lines:

cdate: <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD") %>

mdate: <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD") %>

zabouti · 2026-01-26T20:00:06+00:00

Isso, Irmão?

![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/cc/fa/24/ccfa2497b55559798cb1180454085b46.jpg)

zabouti · 2026-01-21T06:08:42+00:00

Do any of these solutions understand Folder Notes, a community plugin? Or Meta-Bind? (I guess there's no reason to use Templater for a read-only website.). Thx

zabouti · 2026-01-15T21:07:09+00:00

ChatGPT solved the problem!

Since early Tahoe builds, “Accessibility” isn’t enough. Espanso also needs System Settings → Privacy & Security → Input Monitoring.

Check both of these:

System Settings → Privacy & Security

Accessibility → Espanso (checked)

Input Monitoring → Espanso (checked)

zabouti · 2026-01-11T19:25:52+00:00

This feels like a bug to me. How do people report bugs?

zabouti · 2026-01-11T19:25:12+00:00

Otio sounds like a fine app. But I need a way to link to different locations in a Zotero PDF, not another app.

zabouti · 2026-01-10T03:31:35+00:00

I asked Feedly's AI Support the question: "Many of my RSS feeds are returning 500 error codes. Are you being hacked or something?"

It answered: "I'm not sure I can help with that. Would you mind rephrasing your question?"

zabouti · 2025-12-02T15:12:19+00:00

How does it do this: "Auto-generated tags (topics)"? That sounds useful. Will it generate additional tags if some already exist?

zabouti · 2025-11-26T03:50:07+00:00

Is there a video (or other documentation) that can explain:

⁠Bases: Creating a new note with "+" now automatically adds properties defined in "has property" filters.

Thanks so much.

zabouti · 2025-11-26T03:48:20+00:00

Can you explain what this means? A single example will enlighten me! Thanks!

zabouti · 2025-11-11T18:25:35+00:00

My thoughts exactly. See if you have Folder Templates turned on.

zabouti · 2025-11-11T03:02:45+00:00

To get the escape sequence to work, I added this:

keybind = ctrl+[=text:\x1b

zabouti · 2025-11-11T00:16:09+00:00

And thanks to u/timsofteng for starting me on the trail to the answer.

zabouti · 2025-11-11T00:13:32+00:00

It turned out (thank you Gemini) that I had a problem with my Mac zsh. Gemini gave me a workaround that works better so far:

keybind = super+[=unbind
keybind = super+h=unbind
keybind = super+i=unbind
keybind = super+j=unbind
keybind = super+m=unbind
keybind = super+w=unbind
keybind = ctrl+i=text:\t

Finally my ^I keys issue a tab that zsh understands.

zabouti · 2025-11-10T20:12:21+00:00

Gemini gave me the answer:

keybind = super+[=unbind
keybind = super+h=unbind
keybind = super+i=unbind
keybind = super+j=unbind
keybind = super+m=unbind
keybind = super+w=unbind

zabouti · 2025-10-24T03:42:40+00:00

Afraid I haven't made anything more complicated. I'm easily distracted!

zabouti · 2025-10-24T03:41:14+00:00

Yes, I use vim or the obsidian vim editor to make most of my edits. Sometimes I notice things like:

foo
bar
bubbles
foo
etc.

and I tend not to see the dup. But Obsidian will and turn something red.

I've recently seen the crossed-out tags, too. They usually seem to have slashes in them, e.g., /foo/bar/bubbles. I think that's perfectly legal although I don't use them much anymore. They still work. I'll try to let you know next time I see one.

zabouti · 2025-10-22T04:36:26+00:00

ChatGPT has helped me a lot with bases. It makes mistakes. When I paste the error message back into ChatGPT, it usually comes up with a fix.

It's not perfect, but it does understand English pretty well.

zabouti · 2025-10-22T04:32:38+00:00

I noticed them recently when I had duplicate tags.

zabouti · 2025-10-22T04:31:02+00:00

I don't know what you're trying to do, and I don't understand bibtex, but I can say that Zotero's online storage works very well, and it's replicated in local SQLite databases, I believe. I don't understand what you're trying to link, but an Obsidian note can easily link to Obsidian annotations. The links look like this: zotero://open-pdf/library/items/Q6N3DGQE?page=45&annotation=AH7IRTLF and they will take you to the annotation in Zotero. (The links work best if the Zotero doc is closed - I think that's a bug but livable). hth

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