Obsidian Bases For Books 📚 How To Automatically Organize Book Notes 📝

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Hi Friends, my name is Callum aka wanderloots. In today's video, I walk through how to build a Books Base from scratch using the new Obsidian Bases Core Plugin 📚 You can use your Books Base to automatically organize your book notes, extract key quotes, and build your personal Obsidian Library ✨ In this video, I walk through all of the key elements of Obsidian Bases and how you can use the CODE method to capture, organize, distill, and express your book notes in Obsidian. That way, you can focus more on the capturing of notes in a usable way, without ever thinking about the organization again. Once you have your Books Base built and your templates organized, your book notes will be automatically organized, forever. Bases makes the properties of your notes FAR more powerful. You can now edit properties from within the table directly, simplifying batch editing of your note metadata. There is also a card view, where you can add book covers to make your Obsidian Library much more aesthetic. Converting your notes into databases can help you surface insights and reduce information overload, as building inboxes and locating patterns becomes significantly easier. If you've struggled with the Dataview plugin or Notion in the past, I think you'll really enjoy this update. You no longer need to learn to code in Dataview in order to build inboxes & indexes for your notes. I hope you enjoy! ✨ If you want a copy of the Books Base Starter Kit I built in this video (along with a few other views & features), consider joining my membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFiU1vIpPD3lQltke_18m3A/join To go deeper into Bases, check out my Obsidian Bases playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWhMzDKA7vJ4NDvVhlZMki0a4Dv3iYO-S To learn more about how I organize my Obsidian vault with an eye to AI-integration, check out my PKM & Digital Gardening Obsidian Playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWhMzDKA7vJ7p50vW-oeZgKR2aDReZFW6 P.S. I greatly appreciate any feedback, please let me know what you think 😊 💌 Sign up for my [free newsletter: Recalibrating](https://paragraph.xyz/@wanderloots.eth?referrer=wanderloots.eth) 🧠 Join my [Hypersub Exclusive Membership ] (coming soon) 🏡 Wander my Digital Garden https://wanderloots.xyz 📰 Try Ground News For Bias-Aware Research: 40% discount https://check.ground.news/wanderloots Timestamps 00:00 Intro To Books Base - Obsidian Library 01:36 Today's Outline & Goals 03:13 Part 1: Understanding CODE + Bases 04:58 Part 2: Properties (Pre-Organizing Notes) 06:20 Creating Your Books Base 09:23 Part 3: Templates (Auto-Properties) 12:03 Adding Book Covers (Book Search Plugin) 16:29 Web Clipper Goodreads Template 18:36 Part 4: Bases Views (Card vs Table) 20:50 Filtered Views (Fiction vs Non-Fiction) 22:10 Filtered Views (Anti-Library/Tsundoku, Favourites) 24:15 Quote View + Embedded Views (Extracting Concepts) 27:37 Part 5: Formulae & Dynamic Properties 30:12 Part 6: Practical CODE Workflows With Your Books Base 32:50 Concluding Thoughts & Ideas WATCH NEXT 🌱 Obsidian & Digital Gardens https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWhMzDKA7vJ7p50vW-oeZgKR2aDReZFW6 🧭 Recalibrating (Main Storyline) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWhMzDKA7vJ4SLS2e6KiPmu9mku81B__Y ✨ Mindfully Calming Timelapses https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWhMzDKA7vJ4i4WawiPx0MAqdE7E8kr7X LINKS (MY WORLD) 🧭 [Recalibrating Newsletter Home](https://paragraph.xyz/@wanderloots.eth?referrer=wanderloots.eth) 🏔️To start reading from the beginning: [Recalibrating Newsletter Entry 1: What Recalibrating Means To Me](https://wanderloots.substack.com/p/1-what-recalibrating-means-to-me) 🌍 My [Website](https://wanderloots.com/) 📸 My [Print Shop](https://wanderloots.darkroom.com/) ✨ 🧠 [What is Mindfulness](https://www.wanderloots.com/mindfulness)? 🔥 [What is Burnout](https://www.wanderloots.com/burnout) and How Can I Recover? SOCIALS 🟣 [Farcaster](https://warpcast.com/wanderloots.eth) 📸 [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/_wanderloots/) 📰 [Flipboard](https://flipboard.com/@_wanderloots) 📍 [Pinterest](https://www.pinterest.ca/wanderloots/) 🐦 [X (Twitter)](https://twitter.com/_wanderloots) 🧵 [Threads](https://www.threads.net/@_wanderloots) 🤖 [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/user/_wanderloots) MY FAVOURITE TOOLS 😴 🤯 The [Waking Up App](https://dynamic.wakingup.com/guestpass/SC4914439) (use this link for a 30 day free trial) 📝 [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/) (decentralized note-taking) 📹 [Adobe Suite](https://prf.hn/l/lQ9DwpA) (general creativity) ❤️ [Welltory](https://app.welltory.com/payments/plans/main/?coupon=wanderloots) (Health Tracker) EQUIPMENT USED 6. Camera [Sony A7iii](https://amzn.to/3seSHv6) 7. Lens [Sony F2 28 mm](https://amzn.to/3TiWCT2) 8. Tripod [K&F Concept](https://amzn.to/3soCKCP) 9. Lighting [Ubeesize Ring Light](https://amzn.to/3GD02Zy) 10. Main Lighting Neewer 660 PRO RGB: https://amzn.to/3CEcU2V