CSV Editor Obsidian Plugin

A plugin for Obsidian which allows viewing and editing of CSV files in a spreadsheet-like table format.

Back up your CSV files! This plugin is very new and therefore experimental. At this stage, data loss is a very real possibility!

Original Repo

Thanks to deathau for the original repo.

Features

Open (and edit) CSV files right from Obsidian!
Auto-saving
Per-file setting for including headers (persisted in local storage)
Markdown editing, a preview for each individual cell (internal links aren't working correctly, yet)
Sort the data by clicking on a column name
Filter by column values
Freeze columns
Insert new columns/rows

Installation

From GitHub

Download the latest main
Extract the files from the zip to your vault's plugins folder: <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/csv-obsidian
Note: On some machines the .obsidian folder may be hidden. On MacOS you should be able to press Command+Shift+Dot to show the folder in Finder.
Reload Obsidian
If prompted about Safe Mode, you can disable safe mode and enable the plugin. Otherwise head to Settings, third-party plugins, make sure safe mode is off and enable the plugin from there.

Development

This project uses Typescript to provide type checking and documentation.
The repo depends on the latest plugin API in Typescript Definition format, which contains TSDoc comments describing what it does.

Note: The Obsidian API is still in early alpha and is subject to change at any time!

If you want to contribute to development and/or just customize it with your own tweaks, you can do the following:

Clone this repo.
npm i or yarn to install dependencies
npm run build to compile.
Copy manifest.json, main.js and styles.css to a subfolder of your plugins folder (e.g, <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/<plugin-name>/)
Reload obsidian to see changes

Alternately, you can clone the repo directly into your plugins folder and once dependencies are installed use npm run dev to start compilation in watch mode.
You may have to reload obsidian (ctrl+R) to see changes.

Version History

0.0.1

Initial release of csv-obsidian! See Features above

0.0.2

Update of the source code and the package.json to use the latest version the api and each package. Add a button to create CSV from File explorer tab.

0.0.3

Fix the error that was overriding the faulty csv. (They are aside, the editor will just close). A notice will also show what went wrong with the csv.

Known issue

Sometimes, the headers won't move, when scrolling so the content will not entirely be displayed. Try reloading/restart obsidian or switching to a regular file back and forth.

Sayama3 / csv-obsidian