Question about being dependent on plugins

[blue_emperor]

They have addressed this feature in the past:

Oct 9, 2022

Core Database Plugin

Actually, it’s Obsidian that manages/caches the metadata (YAML, links, tags, etc) and the plugin are built on top of this info. The idea being that obsidian does the “foundation work” and plugins access/use this data via API for whatever they want to do. What more can be done? Improve the obsidian search language so it can query all metadata attributes Search operator for YAML similar to Line / Section Do the foundation work and support inline attributes ( Native support for Inline (Inte…

Oct 29, 2022

Super FR: Enhance Obsidian with a type system for notes and database-like views (metadata, object oriented model)

Even though Obsidian doesn’t natively provide database-like features (ala Notion/Airtable), the introduction of YAML attributes and a constellation of plugins have emerged to provide some support for this functionality (dataview, dbfolder, metaedit, metadata menu, etc) [Recently Obsidian Project]. It would be nice if Obsidian could provide direct support. Specifically, Obsidian’s notes could be enhanced with type system and queries/views be generated over notes of a certain type. Broadly spe…