Bases can't list the checklist tasks inside your notes on its own, as of October 2026. A base row is a file, and an Obsidian developer wrote in 2025 that Bases doesn't read file contents. You can make each task its own note, or add a community view for Bases that reads the task lines.
The forum request Bases : Support for tasks was opened on 19 July 2025. As of October 2026 it has 31 posts and 114 likes. The author wants a base where each row is a task with its due date and tags, not a note.
A member of the Obsidian team explained the limit in the same thread. The metadata cache stores where a task is and that it exists, but not its text. The task details are in the file contents, and Bases doesn't read those.
Obsidian's Search plugin has the operators task, task-todo and task-done. The second one finds matches in uncompleted tasks only. Put a search in a query code block and the results show inside a note.
No community plugin is needed. That matters to one poster in the thread, who works where community plugins aren't approved.
Bases reads properties, so a task that is its own note shows up as a row. Two posters in the thread describe this setup, with properties for things like the assignee. One of them calls it fast and easy to embed.
TaskNotes is a community plugin built on the same idea. Its README says each task is a Markdown note with frontmatter and every view is a Bases query.
Block View is a community plugin that adds a view of blocks to Bases. Turn on its Tasks option, choose Incomplete, and it lists the open tasks from the files the base selects. Its README says you can group them and check them off in the view.
Bases Task Rows adds a Task rows view to Bases. The base picks the notes with its normal filters, and the view lists every checkbox line in them as a row. A row has the done box, the task text, due and scheduled dates, priority, tags, the note and the heading.
It reads the Tasks emoji dates and the Dataview fields you already have. Tick a box and the plugin changes that one line of the note. You can sort by due date, scheduled date, priority, task text or note name.
MIT · no telemetry · core features free
Install Bases Task Rows from Community plugins, enable it, and check that the core plugin Bases is on.
Open a folder of notes with tasks and run the command Create a task base for the current folder. The plugin creates Tasks.base there and opens it.
Or open any base, add a view from the view menu and choose the layout Task rows.
Change the base filters to choose the notes, for example a folder or a tag.
Set Show and Sort in the toolbar. Show switches between open tasks, done tasks and all tasks.
Tick a box to complete a task. To group tasks by date, note, heading or tag, use Group by, which needs Pro.
No. The file properties on the Bases syntax page, read in October 2026, include links, embeds and tags, but nothing for tasks. A proposal for such a property sits in the same forum thread.
Not to see tasks in a base. Dataview has its own TASK query, which lists tasks and checks them off in the source file. For recurring tasks, keep ticking them in the note or in a Tasks query. Bases Task Rows doesn't create the next one.
Up to 200 tasks per view, in sort order, and the view says how many it hides. Pro shows every task past 200.
Every checklist task in the notes a base selects, one row each, with a done box you can tick.
