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Tracking Movies and My Thoughts | Media Collection Bases

Media Collection Bases

Also available locally on The Self Discovery Channel @ tv.animalcracker.art

Bases have come to the public and there are a lot of interesting uses for them. As I explore their use I am building a media collection system that keeps track of what I watch along with my notes on the movies that I take while I watch them. In this video I go over how I set up the main Base, the design of the Movie notes themselves, how I link my thoughts to the movie notes, and some tips & tricks to make your Bases look awesome!

Things mentioned:
Obsidian - https://obsidian.md
MediaDB Plugin - https://github.com/mProjectsCode/obsidian-media-db-plugin
Templater Plugin - https://github.com/SilentVoid13/Templater
Book Search Plugin - https://github.com/anpigon/obsidian-book-search-plugin

Chapters:
00:30 My Movie Collection Base Overview
04:30 The Movie Notes (Created with MediaDB)
06:30 Related Media Embedded Base with Views
08:29 Adding a Movie Note with MediaDB
10:10 Media Thoughts Notes with Templater
12:50 Tips and Tricks - beginsWith Formula for Grouping and sortTitle Property
14:55 My Trading Card Collection Base
16:45 Outro and Shilling

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CSS Snippet to Hide Labels in Base Card View

.bases-cards-property[data-property*="lastWatched"] > .bases-cards-label {
    display: none;
}
.bases-cards-property[data-property*="infoBar"] > .bases-cards-label {
    display: none;
}

Formula for infoBar

note["lastWatched"] + note["thumbRating"]

Begins With Formula for Grouping

note["sortTitle"].slice(0, 1)

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