Using each column as a separate data query

[Excali6ur]

What I'm trying to achieve is to make a dashboard to monitor the 'progress' of my notes. To be able to see which note needs additional work before it is completely ready/ developed and linked up. For better clarity I want to split these up into the types of notes. (note about an author, Idea, Book/Video/SM post, Scientific Papers etc - for which I already use separate status Icons).

Technically I could put admonitions into admonitions, But as presented in this mockup, it will be a much cleaner way of representing the data.

Question: How would you go about using each column as a separate data query?

[AB1908]

Can you see if Obsidian Columns helps? There was a plugin of that sort. Also, I think interop with kanban would help and there was an open issue for that (#374).

[Excali6ur]

Will check, and post an update if I find a solution
Since I'm new to dataview, I think the main issue is not even knowing where to look for the solution. Maybe even a possibility to stack separate lists or tables next to each other could be a work around. but then again not sure if such functionality (or the one I posted) is even there..

[AB1908]

Yea I remember you posted this on Discord but I haven't had time to experiment.

[Excali6ur]

@AB1908 (FYI) Found a great workaround.

CSS: https://github.com/efemkay/obsidian-modular-css-layout/blob/main/MCL%20Multi%20Column.css
Relevant for uninformed like me: https://help.obsidian.md/How+to/Use+callouts

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[Excali6ur]

Final Form / You can even use it to have (different elements) like buttons next to each other

[AB1908]

You know what? I think this is the cleanest solution there is. Great find!

[AB1908]

I might just adopt this approach to make a kanban.

[Excali6ur]

Yup. I mean what I have is pretty much a kanban but for all notes in my vault. You could technically make it so that it moves left to right, as well as have a button for each query to change status of individual files (with MetaEdit).
(But MetaEdit works with Kanbans too as far as I remember)