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Dataview ○˒｜Definition｜1st｜20251021113319-00-⌔
Overview
Dataview is a live index and query engine over your personal knowledge base. You can add metadata to your notes and query them with the Dataview Query Language to list, filter, sort or group your data. Dataview keeps your queries always up to date and makes data aggregation a breeze.
You could
- Track your sleep by recording it in daily notes, and automatically create weekly tables of your sleep schedule.
- Automatically collect links to books in your notes, and render them all sorted by rating.
- Automatically collect pages associated with today’s date and show them in your daily note.
- Find pages with no tags for follow-up, or show pretty views of specifically-tagged pages.
- Create dynamic views which show upcoming birthdays or events recorded in your notes
and many more things.
Dataview gives you a fast way to search, display and operate on indexed data in your vault!:
Dataview is highly generic and high performance, scaling up to hundreds of thousands of annotated notes without issue.
If the built in query language is insufficient for your purpose, you can run arbitrary JavaScript against the dataview API and build whatever utility you might need yourself, right in your notes.
Dataview is about displaying, not editing: Dataview is meant for displaying and calculating data. It is not meant to edit your notes/metadata and will always leave them untouched (… except if you’re checking a Task through Dataview.)
Printed 2026-06-28.
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