I have no idea what the tea leaves are revealing, but, but it seems logical that the dynamic views functionality would be something elevated from core search but not as code centric as data view is.
Now that we have properties and tables, the next logical thing would be improving and putting a face on the core search plugin using those elements. Purely speculating, It may be that Datacore is the guts for that.
If I was still in a project management environment, I would lean towards using the Plain Text Project Planning plugin. I say that only because it’s a rather specialized application, it has quite a following, and it works now. Caveat, a question to ask any developer about functionality like that: How would I export that data later if I needed it in Markdown, or any other format; say, a corporate archive of projects or a bank validating a loan or a lawyer in a contract dispute, etc…
I very much would like to see core Obsidian adhere to Markdown compatibility. So far, they’ve done an amazing job of this!
When are they going to start working on dynamic views? It’s been on Planned in the Roadmap for months… I’m starting to think it should have stayed an open-source project.
No but datacore was! If i’m not mistaken Obsidian acquired datacore because they planned to implement more or less the same thing as a core plugin, which i think is the dynamic views issue but i’m not even sure to be quite honest. I’ve read somewhere that datacore is on the ice because of this.
For real i’m itching to return to Notion but i really want to keep my things local, i just can’t wait to have an equivalent in Obsidian, i even volunteered to contribute to datacore before realizing it was on ice.
And Datacore is not on ice. It’s had three releases these last three weeks, and there are four active pull-requests with new features which will likely be merged soon.
The initial README for Datacore, posted on 27 December 2022, said ‘expect to see early releases available in Obsidian in late January 2023’, and then on 9 February 2023 the release was said to be in March 2023.
Around the same time, the Obsidian Roadmap made mention of Dynamic Views.
With Obsidian’s own plugins being called ‘Core plugins’, and Datacore having CORE as part of its name, I have wondered if the timings above are simply coincidental or if Datacore is destined to become one of Obsidian’s ‘Core plugins’.
Obsidian sponsors the developer of Dataview/Datacore. Wonder why there would be a need to develop (and sponsor) two plugins that look as though they will be similar in scope. Wouldn’t one Core plugin make more sense?