I had been thinking about something similar for quite some time, when the need arose to create simple tables with the ability to merge cells.
Markdown tables do not have this capability, and separate software for creating spreadsheets is too cumbersome, unwieldy, inconvenient, and subjectively repulsive in terms of UI/UX.
And besides Spreadsheets, I couldn’t find any simple software that would allow me to just create a table — only office Spreadsheets or database software.
The community has created a couple of plugins for Spreadsheets, but when I last checked them, unfortunately, they didn’t even support internal links…
Then I also thought that it would be convenient if Obsidian developed its own file format for simple tables, with the ability to at least merge cells and, optionally, apply styles. And export the table as an image. As was previously the case with Canvas, and now with Bases.
I also really dislike tables in Markdown:
Speaking not only about tables, lately I’ve been thinking more and more that Mermaid lacks a graphical interface shell that would simplify the process of creating different visualizations. And adjustments to what the visualization looks like, because the current one seems too ugly.
Not being a developer in 2025 is quite painful =)
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