Book tracker

Obsdian book tracker built using dataview

Description

Obsdian book tracker built using dataview

Features

• Currently Reading — Shows books with status: reading, sorted by start date
• Want to Read — Backlog of books with status: want-to-read
• Finished This Year — Books completed in 2026 with ratings
• Stats — Inline Dataview count of total finished books

Required Plugins

• Dataview — for all query blocks and inline queries

Setup

1. Create a Books/ folder in your vault
2. Add book notes with frontmatter: author, status (reading/want-to-read/finished), rating, started, finished, genre
3. Open Notes/Book Tracker.md

Example Book Note

---
author: Cal Newport
status: reading
genre: productivity
rating: 
started: 2026-03-15
finished: 
---

File

• Notes/Book Tracker.md

Tags

#note-template #tracker #dataview #reading #books

Required Plugins

Plugin	Version	Link
Dataview	0.5.68	GitHub

Installation

1. Download the .md file(s) from this repo
2. Place them in your vault
3. Install the required plugins listed above

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