Obsidian Bases When to Use This Skill | Use this skill when... | Use the alternative instead when... | |---|---| | Querying notes that share a Base view (status board, reading list, project tracker) | Doing a free-text search across the vault — use | | Creating a new entry that should land in a specific Base view | Creating an arbitrary note — use | | Listing what files and views exist in the vault | Reading frontmatter on a single note — use | Bases turn note collections into queryable views with frontmatter-driven filters and columns. The CLI exposes those views as structured data — JSON fo…