Obsidian & Airtable

Hello ​@mlwrose , it's great to know you've been exploring airtable. It's a very user-friendly tool. Obsidian is basically a note taking tool and it's also easy to use.

Hm, looks like there’s an Obisidian plugin that pulls from Airtable called ‘Auto Notes Importer’.  May need to poke around to see whether there are any plugins that handle the two way sync, and if not there’s a plugin that makes a REST API and you can write your own code to plug into that called ‘Local Rest API’

Both plugins are still being updated at the time of writing it seems so that’s good

Hi! I'm the developer of the Auto Note Importer plugin that ​@TheTimeSavingCo  mentioned. I hadn't been maintaining it for a while, but I've recently picked it back up and have been actively pushing updates again.

To answer the two-way sync question — yes, the plugin now supports bidirectional sync with conflict resolution.

GitHub: https://github.com/uppinote20/obsidian-auto-note-importer

Happy to answer any questions!

If you're comfortable with it, you could probably do something interesting with MCPs and the AI client of your choice.

Maybe get something like Claude to scan for new note entries in Obsidian and generate corresponding summaries (or similar) in Airtable? I'm not super familiar with available Obsidian MCPs, but I imagine anything would be possible...

Ultimately you’re processing text, so it's really just a matter of getting Obsidian content into Airtable.

There is a Python script that is called “Airtable2Obsidian” that converts your entire Airtable base into interlinked Markdown files,  keeping tags and linked record relationships which will become proper Obsidian graph connections.  This will allow your Airtable structure to live inside your vault.

There is also a way to query Airtable from inside of Obsidian with the “Post Webhook plugin” which can be combined with automation tools like n8n or Make to let you highlight a question in a note, then send it to a Webhook and receive data back from Airtable directly into your note.

Are you leaning toward anything in particular getting Airtable into your vault, querying Airtable data from your notes?