Use Obsidian for Content Creators | Build Notion-like Database Views to Manage Projects

Amy Li, PhD
6 min readDec 10, 2022

Build Table, Calendar, Kanban, and Gallery views in Obsidian.

Image by Amy Li using Canva.

I don’t use Notion as much as before, but as a content creator, I miss the well-designed database views in Notion, where I could easily navigate to different views to manage our content. For example, in Kanban view, I could easily see the status of my work, and update the status of the content by simply dragging and dropping the target item. I could schedule my content effortlessly inside the Calendar view.

Demonstrate the Notion database views. GIF by Amy Li

Luckily, we could set up similar database views inside Obsidian as well. In this article, I’m going to introduce you Obsidian Projects plugin, how to install it, how to create a new project, how to add new items to the project, and how I use this plugin for my creative work daily.

Demonstrate the project database views in Obsidian. GIF by Amy Li

Install & Enable Obsidian Projects Plugin

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Amy Li, PhD

Software Developer | Ph.D. in Medicine. I write about programming, productivity, personal development, and entrepreneurship. https://www.youtube.com/@amyjuanli