Hands-on guides for open-source and self-hosted productivity tools — tested, not summarized.https://toolarity.com/https://toolarity.com/obsidian/bases-contains-partial-match/https://toolarity.com/obsidian/bases-contains-partial-match/Tested against 15 purpose-built probe notes: contains() ignores case, matches substrings on text, matches whole elements on lists, and throws on numbers.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://toolarity.com/obsidian/bases-vs-dataview/https://toolarity.com/obsidian/bases-vs-dataview/A verdict after three hours of testing Bases against known answers: what it gets exactly right, its four traps, and where Dataview is still the correct choice.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://toolarity.com/obsidian/bases-embed-in-note/https://toolarity.com/obsidian/bases-embed-in-note/Eleven ways to embed a base, each in its own note. Two work identically, one fails silently, and the extension you normally omit is mandatory here.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://toolarity.com/obsidian/bases-nested-filter/https://toolarity.com/obsidian/bases-nested-filter/Six levels of and/or/not nesting, each result computed independently before the run. All six matched exactly — and the rule I used to check them was wrong.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://toolarity.com/obsidian/dataview-to-bases-migration/https://toolarity.com/obsidian/dataview-to-bases-migration/Each Dataview clause mapped to its Bases equivalent and verified against known answers, plus the three habits that translate cleanly but behave differently.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://toolarity.com/obsidian/bases-filter-syntax/https://toolarity.com/obsidian/bases-filter-syntax/Every Bases operator and function run against a 1,781-file vault, with the result count independently verified. One display quirk will mislead you.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://toolarity.com/obsidian/bases-modified-last-7-days/https://toolarity.com/obsidian/bases-modified-last-7-days/The filter is two lines. The problem is that it silently includes your PDFs and images, and the result count tells you almost nothing. Tested on 1,781 files.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://toolarity.com/obsidian/bases-managing-attachments/https://toolarity.com/obsidian/bases-managing-attachments/Bases indexes PDFs, images and CSVs as first-class files, with working size and extension properties. It also counts your .base files as attachments.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT