Obsidian users lack reusable inline computed properties
Obsidian users want calculated file properties to appear inline in individual notes, with formulas they can reuse across notes. Bases and community-plugin workarounds do not meet everyone’s needs: some users worry about plugin reliability or long-term support, while templates add setup steps. Property fields also do not render mathematical expressions as equations.
For obsidian power users and personal-knowledge-base maintainers. Mentioned from Jun 2024 to Aug 2026 on product forums and GitHub.
8 different people described this problem in 5 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 4.0/10
- Pain
- 4.8/10
- Frequency
- 7.9/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 4.4/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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In my experience, the community plugin solutions that accomplish this are unreliable
We can get away with this with a couple plugins, but recently dataview’s future seems to be unstable, so I’d rather a base feature handle this
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