Basecraft

Basecraft

Pivot tables for Obsidian Bases.

What it does

Bases can list and filter your notes; it can't cross-tabulate them. Basecraft adds a Pivot view to any .base file: pick a row property, a column property, an aggregation, and you get a spreadsheet-style cross-table built from your own notes.

Say your reading notes have author and year properties. Rows = author, columns = year, aggregation = count: now you can see you read eleven books in 2024 and nine of them were by two authors. Same trick works for expenses by category × month, workouts by type × week, papers by topic × status.

Free

• Pivot view (rows × columns)
• Count and Sum aggregations
• Row, column and grand totals

Pro: $14 one-time

• Average, Min, Max, Median and Distinct count aggregations
• Date grouping: bucket any date property by month, quarter or year (expenses by category × month without helper properties)
• Drill-down: click a cell to see and open the matching notes
• Heatmap conditional formatting
• Show values as % of total, % of row, or % of column
• Export the pivot to CSV or Excel
• Future Pro additions ship as free updates

A license activates on up to 3 devices and never expires. Get a key here ($14, one-time, via Polar).

Install

From the community store

In Obsidian, open Settings → Community plugins → Browse, search for "Basecraft", install and enable it.

Manually

1. Download main.js, manifest.json and styles.css from the latest release.
2. Place them inside <your-vault>/.obsidian/plugins/basecraft/.
3. In Obsidian, enable Community plugins and toggle Basecraft on.
4. Make sure the Bases core plugin is enabled.

Use

1. Create or open a .base file.
2. Add a new view, choose Pivot.
3. In the toolbar, set Rows, Columns and an Aggregation.

That's it. The toolbar shows what's locked behind Pro and what's free.

Status

V0.4: license activation is live (Polar), drill-down, heatmap, percentages and CSV/Excel export all work. Multi-dimensional rows/columns and PNG export are next.

Built by Hewnpath

One-person studio. Basecraft is the Obsidian sibling of HewnFrame (Figma) and HewnFlow (Webflow): small tools that do one job and put a number on it. More at hewnpath.com.