Obsidian Bases users repeatedly rewrite and debug formulas
Obsidian Bases users find long formulas hard to debug and often copy them manually between properties and views. They also want properties to draw on related bases instead of being rewritten by hand. The requests point to a broader gap in reusing and maintaining formulas and properties across Bases, though the clearest evidence is for formula reuse.
For obsidian Bases power users. Mentioned from Jun 2025 to Nov 2025 on product forums.
4 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 3.0/10
- Pain
- 5.5/10
- Frequency
- 5.8/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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I have to find where I used it before and copy/paste it manually to a new custom property Proposed solution Add a “Formulas Library” feature
I just copy/paste the same formula on each view … which is not very nice
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