Base Board

Base Board is an interactive, property-driven Kanban board view for Obsidian Bases. It allows you to organize your notes into visual columns based on any property in your frontmatter, providing a seamless drag-and-drop experience for managing tasks and structured data.

Key Features

• Property-Based Columns: Instantly generate columns from any frontmatter property.
• Intuitive Drag & Drop: Move cards between columns to update their properties automatically, and reorder cards within a column.
• Inline Power: Rename cards or column titles directly on the board.
• Native Editing Modal: Open any card into a fully-functional Obsidian editor floating directly over your workspace.
• Rich Cards: View key metadata fields as chips on each card for a quick overview.
• Configurable Card Title: Set cardTitleProperty: note.title in your .base file to use a frontmatter property (e.g. title) as the card heading instead of the filename.
• Tags: Color-coded tag chips on cards with a clickable filter bar to narrow the board by tag.
• Hover Preview: Native note previews on hover (uses the Page preview core plugin).
• One-Click Creation: Add new notes directly to a specific column without leaving the board view.
• Data First: All changes are written directly to your Markdown files.

Usage

Open the Command palette (Ctrl/Cmd + P) and run "Base Board: Create new board". Enter a name, choose a folder, and the plugin will scaffold everything for you — a .base file, a tasks folder, and sample task notes. The board opens automatically.

Installation

From Obsidian Community Plugins

Search for Base Board in the Obsidian Community Plugins browser and click Install.

Using BRAT

1. Install the BRAT plugin.
2. Go to Settings → BRAT → Add Beta Plugin.
3. Enter mderazon/obsidian-base-board and click Add Plugin.

Development

1. Clone this repo.
2. Run npm install.
3. Run npm run dev to start the build process in watch mode.

License

This plugin is licensed under the MIT License.