Tablite

A fast, feature-rich CSV/TSV editor for Obsidian. Edit tabular data directly in your vault with an Excel-like experience.

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Features

• Virtual scrolling & progressive loading — handles large files smoothly with chunked rendering
• Inline editing — double-click any cell to edit
• Cell selection & cross highlight — single-click to select, with row/column cross highlight (toggleable)
• Column type detection — auto-detects STRING, NUMBER, DATE types per column
• Column sorting — click header to sort (multi-column supported)
• Smart column filtering
  • Text columns: free-text filter
  • Enum columns (< 12 unique values): multi-select dropdown with checkboxes
  • Number columns: min/max range filter
  • Date columns: date range picker
• Global search — search across all cells with highlight and navigation
• Auto delimiter detection — comma, semicolon, tab, pipe
• Excel export compatibility — auto-trims trailing empty columns from bloated spreadsheet exports
• Auto encoding detection — UTF-8, GBK, Windows-1252, Shift-JIS
• Header detection — auto-detects whether first row is a header, with manual toggle
• Column management — hide/show, reorder via drag & drop, freeze columns
• Column resizing — drag column borders to resize
• Persistent column config — column widths, order, visibility, and freeze state are saved per file
• Context menu — right-click to insert/delete rows and columns
• Undo/Redo — full edit history (up to 50 steps)
• Obsidian-native styling — respects your theme colors and dark/light mode

Installation

From Community Plugins (coming soon)

Search for Tablite in Obsidian Settings → Community Plugins → Browse.

Via BRAT

1. Install BRAT plugin
2. In BRAT settings, select Add Beta Plugin
3. Enter laofahai/obsidian-tablite

Manual Installation

1. Download tablite-x.x.x.zip from the latest release
2. Extract the zip into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/
3. Restart Obsidian and enable Tablite in Settings → Community Plugins

Usage

Open any .csv or .tsv file in your vault — Tablite automatically opens it as an editable table.

Action	How
Edit a cell	Double-click
Select a cell	Single-click
Sort column	Click header name (multi-sort with Shift+click)
Rename header	Double-click header name
Filter column	Use the filter input below header (type varies by column)
Resize column	Drag the right edge of header
Reorder columns	Drag & drop column headers
Hide/show columns	Use the Columns panel in toolbar
Freeze columns	Set freeze count in toolbar
Insert/delete row or column	Right-click → context menu
Undo / Redo	Ctrl/Cmd+Z / Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Z
Search	Ctrl/Cmd+F or search box in toolbar

Tech Stack

• Preact — lightweight UI
• TanStack Table — headless table logic (sorting, filtering)
• TanStack Virtual — row virtualization
• PapaParse — CSV parsing/serialization
• jschardet — encoding detection

Development

git clone https://github.com/laofahai/obsidian-tablite.git
cd obsidian-tablite
npm install
npm run dev    # watch mode
npm run build  # production build

License

MIT