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Views

Views allow you to organize the information in a Base in multiple different ways. A base can contain several views, and each view can have a unique configuration to display, sort, and filter files.

For example, you may want to create a base called "Books" that has separate views for "Reading list" and "Recently finished".

Layout

Currently, bases can be displayed as a table. In the future more layout types will be added. See Bases roadmap.

With the Table layout each row is a file, and columns are populated from the Properties in your notes.

Filters

A base without filters shows all the files in your vault. Filters allow you to narrow down results to only show files that meet specific criteria. For example, you can use filters to only display files with a specific tag or within a specific folder. Many filter types are available.

Click the Filters button at the top of a base to add filters.

Filters can be applied to all views in a base, or just a single view by choosing from the two sections in the Filters menu.

All views applies filters to all views in the base.
This view applies filters to the active view.

Properties, operators, values

Filters have three components:

Property — lets you choose a property in your vault, including implicit properties
Operator — lets you choose how to compare the conditions. The list of available operators depends on the property type (text, date, number, etc)
Value — lets you choose the value you are comparing to. Values can include math and functions.

Conjunctions

All the following are true is an and statement — results will only be shown if all conditions in the filter group are met.
Any of the following are true is an or statement — results will be shown if any of the conditions in the filter group are met.
None of the following are true is a not statement — results will not be shown if any of the conditions in the filter group are met.

Filter groups

Filter groups allow you to create more complex logic by creating combinations on conjunctions.

Advanced filter editor

Click the code button lucide-code-xml.svg > icon to use the advanced filter editor. This displays the raw syntax for the filter, and can be used with more complex functions that cannot be displayed using the point-and-click interface.