Obsidian question: Why no real databases?

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See this post for some explanation of this intentional design decision.

Wikilinks in YAML front matter

FYI: And Licat’s answer specifically: We have no plans to implement Notion/Airtable-like database functionalities, but that in theory doesn’t prevent plugin authors from turning Markdown tables into databases […] This is the trade-off we made for Obsidian, which is why I said I don’t think this would be changed at all. It’s in Obsidian’s DNA. Of course, it’s entirely up to you whether you want to make that trade-off, and we respect that. If you value functionality more than future-proofnes…