Bases Kanban View

A Kanban board view for Obsidian Bases.

Warning

This plugin is provided as-is for personal use. The repository is public for anyone who wants to fork and adapt it. Please do not open issues for support or feature requests.

Features

📋 Kanban visualization — Groups notes into columns based on a property (default: status)

🖱️ Drag & drop — Move cards between columns to update their status

➕ Quick add — Create new cards directly from column headers

📎 Subtasks — Create related notes from any card (requires Link property name config)

📝 Template support — Full integration with Obsidian's templates folder

✂️ Title cleaning — Strip prefixes/suffixes from card titles

Usage

1. Create a new Base in Obsidian
2. Switch to Kanban view
3. Cards are grouped by the status property by default

Configuration

📊 Columns

Setting	Description
Column property	Frontmatter property to group by (default: status)
Columns	Comma-separated order, e.g. Todo, In Progress, Done
Show empty columns	Toggle visibility of empty columns

🃏 Cards

Setting	Description
Strip from title start	Text to remove from beginning of titles
Strip from title end	Text to remove from end of titles

📝 Templates & Creation

Setting	Description
Default new note title	Suggested name for new cards
Default new note template	Template file for new cards
Default subnote title	Suggested name for subtasks
Subnote template	Template file for subtasks

⚙️ Behavior

Setting	Description
Quick add cards	Show + button in column headers
Enable drag and drop	Allow moving cards between columns
Show subnote button	Show + on cards for subtasks
Link property name	Property for linking subnotes (e.g. parent)

Installation

Manual

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the Releases page
2. Create .obsidian/plugins/bases-kanban-view/ in your vault
3. Place the files in that folder
4. Enable the plugin in Settings → Community plugins

BRAT

1. Install Obsidian42 - BRAT
2. Run BRAT: Add a beta plugin for testing
3. Enter this repository URL

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License

MIT