Use case or problem
Hello Obsidian Team, I’ve been using Dataview to track various things like video games, movie, shows, etc.
It allows me to find my way through media I consume, while I take notes about them.
When I heard about the release of the Bases feature, I was stocked, so I tried it out, and it’s really great.
The only glaring ommission it has compared to Dataview at the moment is the ability to embed images into the table.
Embedding images is essential to transform a standard table tool into a true media tracker. It allows one to build a neat looking collection, that is easy to navigate visually, and features the recognisable banners of the media you interacted with.
Here is an example of how that currently looks with Dataview :
As well, it is possible to look at pretty much any video game, show, or anime tracker website for inspiration, as it is pretty much impossible to find any that doesn’t feature the cover art for the shows as part of the table.
To escape the inevitable shutdown of such websites, and untie my data tracking from these fleeting services, I initially moved all my tracking to Google Sheets over 7 years ago, but 2 years ago, Obsidian rocked my world and replaced anything and everything, allowing me to centralize all my information into one place.
It would be quite lovely if the Bases feature, which will have native support in Obsidian Publish, would support embeddable images, as that would allow me to have my trackers with all the cover arts public to share with friends.
Proposed solution
Further more, if I may, to make this feature truly great, it would be nice if the size of the images could be manually set.
Embeds already support setting the image size by having the pixel resolution set as the “alias” of the wikilink.
However, it is best if within the file metadata, the image file could be linked to natively, and within each Base view, this “size alias” could be set to something different.
Currently, with Dataview, I can set a collumn to embed(link(MyThumbnailsMetadata, "300")) to make it contain embeds at 300 pixels.
This method indeed relies on the ability to set the alias in order to specify the desired size of the embed.
Related feature requests (optional)
This post is the closest I was able to find about my request, however, it asks for a full on separate image database, which is not the same.
My bad, it has been pointed to my attention that a post about my feature idea had already been made prior. Here it is. Sorry for the duplicate. I thought I had searched properly.
Thanks you very much for considering this feature. And thank you for making Obsidian. Have a nice day.