WCC Base Views

Turn your notes into calendars, agendas, task lists, kanban boards, and timelines with five custom views for Obsidian Bases. Edit properties and move notes directly in each view. Your data stays in ordinary Markdown files.

List and Agenda previews with fictional sample notes. The first card in each view has its details expanded; appearance follows your theme.

Choose a view

View	What you can do
Calendar	Plan in month, week, or agenda layouts. Drag notes to reschedule them and create notes for a selected day or date range.
List	Browse notes in a flat or grouped list, mark tasks complete, and expand card details when you need them.
Kanban	Organize notes into columns and optional swimlanes. Move cards between groups, add notes inline, and show cover images.
Timeline	See date ranges at day, week, or month zoom. Drag bars to move them and resize their edges to change dates.
Table	Edit properties in columns, group rows, and resize or reorder columns with mouse and keyboard controls.

Use the native Bases filters, sorting, grouping, and property selection with every view. The plugin works with your own property names; it does not require a particular task or project structure.

Make it fit your workflow

• Compact cards: List and Calendar offer Compact and Comfortable density, adjustable padding, and an option to hide empty properties.
• Expandable details: List, Agenda, and Calendar cards have a details arrow. Turn on Spacing → Expand details by default to start a view expanded. Individual choices survive data refreshes while the view stays open.
• Color by property: Use project colors for cards and separate priority colors for checkboxes. Linked project names work with short color rules such as Work:orange.
• Click or drag: Click a title to open its note or a property to edit it. Drag from the card, including its title, checkbox, details arrow, or displayed metadata. On touch, hold briefly before dragging; a quick swipe scrolls.
• Narrow panes: Calendar and Timeline adapt to smaller panes on desktop as well as mobile. Calendar uses a date selector with a selected-day list; Timeline can stack details above its bars.

Install

Requires Obsidian 1.10.2 or later with the Bases core plugin enabled. Supports desktop and mobile. Dataview is not required.

WCC Base Views is not yet listed in the Community plugins catalog. To install the current release:

1. Open the latest release and download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from its assets.
2. Place the three files in your vault's .obsidian/plugins/wcc-base-views/ folder, creating the folder if needed.
3. Reload Obsidian and enable WCC Base Views in Settings → Community plugins.

Once the catalog listing is available, you can search for WCC Base Views under Community plugins → Browse and install it there.

Get started

1. Create or open a Base and filter it to the notes you want to see.
2. Add a view and choose WCC - Calendar, WCC - List, WCC - Kanban, WCC - Timeline, or WCC - Table as its layout.
3. Use Properties to choose the visible fields. Set up grouping and sorting through the native Bases menus.
4. In the view's configuration, select the properties used for dates, completion, and colors. Enter plain names such as date, done, and project.

For a task list, a note could start with these properties:

---
date: 2026-10-12
done: false
project: '[[Projects/Work]]'
priority: high
status: Todo
order: 10
---

The note's filename supplies its title. None of these property names are mandatory. For this example:

• Set Calendar's Date property to date, and List or Calendar's Done property to done.
• Set Color by property to project, with a rule such as Work:orange.
• Set Color checkbox by property to priority, with rules such as high:red, med:orange, and low:blue.
• Group a Kanban view by status. Use a numeric Sort order property, such as order, when you want to save manual ordering.

To hide completed tasks, add a Base filter for done not being true. Completion alone does not remove a note from the view. Calendar needs a valid date to display a note; Timeline needs a start date and can also use an end-date property.

New notes use Bases' own creation settings. Adding a note in a calendar day or grouped view supplies that date or group value.

Editing and data

Edits, completion toggles, and drag operations update note properties in your vault. File and formula properties are read-only. Enter or clicking away saves an edit; Escape cancels it. Links open their targets, and you can click the space beside a link to edit its property.

The plugin does not collect telemetry or require an account or subscription. Backgrounds and Kanban covers can use vault attachments or image URLs. An external image URL loads from its host; use vault attachments for local images.

Help and contributing

• View configuration and interaction guide
• Upgrading an early installation
• Report a bug or request a feature
• Development and release guide

This plugin is under active development. Licensed under MIT.