Bases Formula: Cross-Note Lookup & Rollup

Summary

Bases formulas today only operate on the current note’s frontmatter and file metadata—there’s no way to query or summarize fields from other notes within a formula .

Inspiration from Notion

Notion’s Relation property lets you link entries across databases. Its Rollup then aggregates a linked property—summing task hours, counting subtasks, pulling statuses, and so on—automatically across those related entries .

Use cases

Connect different sets of notes together!
For now it can be done using Dataview.

I know Bases formulas dev is still ongoing but I didn’t see this feature considered, so I thought I’d ask~

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