Why we are building a Kanban view for Obsidian Bases
Obsidian added Bases, a real database layer over your notes. It is genuinely good — and right now it shows your data as a table. If you have ever run a board of notes grouped by status, you immediately miss the kanban view.
Where this sits
For years the way to get a board in Obsidian was the community obsidian-kanban plugin — excellent, widely used, and now long quiet with a large backlog. Meanwhile Obsidian's new Bases ships with an open custom-view API and, so far, only a table renderer. That gap — a popular workflow, a stranded user base, and an official extension point — is the whole reason this tool exists.
What we are building
A Bases custom view that renders any Base as a drag-and-drop kanban board, grouped by any property, with moves writing straight back to the underlying notes. The free core is the board; a Pro tier (swimlanes, nested tasks, board embedding) is planned, sold via a one-time license, never a subscription. Paid plugins are explicitly allowed by Obsidian's developer policy.
It is in development
This one is not live yet. We are validating demand before building the full plugin — if a board for Bases is something you want, the waitlist is the way to say so, and the only thing that decides whether we build it.
Obsidian Bases Kanban is in development. Join the waitlist and you will hear when the first build is ready.
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Is this the old obsidian-kanban plugin?
No. It is a new custom view built specifically for Obsidian Bases (the database core), grouped by any Base property. We credit obsidian-kanban as the prior art that proved the workflow.
Is it available now?
Not yet — it is in development. Join the waitlist and you will hear when the first build is ready.