Obsidian users struggle to query and reuse Markdown data
Obsidian users who keep structured information in notes want to query tables, adjust database-style views, and preserve useful query results as plain Markdown. Dataview queries stay dynamic and render as HTML, while Markdown tables are requested as query sources. One workaround is combining Templater and DataviewJS, but users are asking for more direct support.
For obsidian power users managing structured notes. Mentioned from Apr 2021 to Jul 2026 on product forums and GitHub.
4 different people described this problem in 3 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 5.0/10
- Pain
- 4.5/10
- Frequency
- 5.8/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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I think you can combine Templater + DataviewJS to do queries and dynamically generate Markdown tables + lists for this, but first class support is definitely a good idea
well, even just 'first table in the file' would already be great. but now that you have header queries, that seems like the right direction
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