Tables that behave like databases
Some information wants to be a list with columns: feature comparisons, content calendars, applicant trackers, reading lists. BlokNotes data tables live inside your notes and behave like lightweight databases — typed columns, summaries, and rows that are pages.
Every row can open into its own full note with blocks, attachments, backlinks and mentions, so the table is the index and the rows hold the depth.
What you get
- Tables embedded in any note
- Typed columns: text, number, date, select
- Column summaries: sum, count, average
- Rows that open as full note pages
- Row hierarchy with sub-rows
- Icons, covers and favorites per row
- Backlinks and mentions on rows
Structure without leaving the page
Insert a data table into a note and define its columns — text, numbers, dates, selects. Column summaries roll up totals, counts and averages at the bottom, so a budget table or pipeline sheet computes itself.
Every row is a page
Click a row and it opens as a full note: blocks, files, sketches, links. A 'Vendors' table becomes a vendor dossier per row; a content calendar's rows hold the actual drafts. Rows can even nest sub-rows for hierarchies.
- Full block editor inside every row
- Attachments, backlinks, mentions and relations per row
- Sub-rows for hierarchical data
Questions about data tables
How are data tables different from simple tables in notes?
Simple block tables are static grids. Data tables have typed columns, summaries and rows that open as full pages with their own content and links — closer to a lightweight database view.
Can I do calculations in a table?
Columns support summary functions — sum, count, average and more — which is enough for budgets, hour counts and scorecards without spreadsheet formulas.
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