12-2 Library & Reading Log 📚

Books you've read, books you're reading, books you bought and haven't cracked open yet… just type the title and ObsiKO pulls the cover, author, page count, table of contents, and intro right off the internet to fill it in — then gathers every book in your vault into a vertical bookshelf (library). Drag a cover onto the Done shelf and it's marked as finished! 📖✨

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Fetching book info — just type the title! 🔎

Simply set the note's frontmatter type (or 종류 in Korean) to book, and the magic begins.

1. Reading properties fill in all at once — author · publisher · cover · total pages · read pages · rating · book status · started · finished.
2. A book search window pops up right away (the note title / file name is prefilled and searched automatically!). Pick the book you want and…
3. The frontmatter fills with the cover · author · publisher · page count, and the body gets ## 📖 Intro · ## 🗂️ Table of Contents · ## ✍️ Notes sections laid out.
4. On top of that, the document title (file name) is automatically renamed to the book title.

🌐 Search uses Kakao Book Search (Korean titles) by default, plus Google Books · Open Library (international titles). Page counts and tables of contents are enriched from Aladin. ObsiKO's own server fetches it all for you, so Korean titles search well even on the web (no need to plug in an API key).

Book status ✅

book status (book_status) is a choice property, so you pick one of four values:

📚 To Read · 📖 Reading · ✅ Done · ⏹️ Dropped

This value doubles as the shelf in the library below and the basis for the dashboard's Currently Reading card.

Library view — your books as a vertical bookshelf 🪑

A dedicated Bases view that gathers every book note in your vault in one place.

• Creating one: sidebar ＋ menu → Library, or search Library in the command palette (⌘P)! It makes a .base file that collects type == "book" notes. (Want the templates in one go too? → Knowledge Packs 📦)
• Front-facing bookshelf (gallery): not the usual sideways kanban, but a vertical shelf showing covers face-on. Shelves are split by book status (To Read · Reading · Done · Dropped), with covers lined up one after another on each.
• Drag to mark as done 🖐️: grab a cover and drag it onto the Done shelf and that note's book status flips to Done (press-hold on phone/iPad). No right-clicking — just your fingertip!
• Reading-progress bar 📊: under each cover, a thin bar shows how far you've read (read pages ÷ total pages). Books on the Done shelf fill up as a 100% green bar.
• A table view too: you can view the same library as a table in the view tabs (status, rating, and pages at a glance).

Dashboard 'Currently Reading' card 📖

A card on the Dashboard that gathers up the books you're reading right now.

• Shows Reading books in most-recently-touched order with cover, title, author, and a progress bar — up to 6 of them.
• Click a title and you zip straight to that book's note.
• The status dropdown inside the card lets you change status on the spot — switch from 'Reading' to 'Done' and the card drops it and the next book takes its place.
• By default it's a full-width card, and how many books you see grows and shrinks with the window width. Fold it to half width in edit mode and they line up 2 per row instead.

💡 Since it's a new card, existing dashboard users need to pull it out of the 'Hidden cards' tray in edit mode to see it.

Try it this way 💡

• Before reading: make a type: book note for a book you want to buy, pull in its cover and intro, and collect them like a wishlist (To Read).
• While reading: update read pages and the progress bar fills up. Pick up where you left off from the dashboard's Currently Reading card!
• After finishing: drag the cover onto the Done shelf in the library, and jot your thoughts in the ## ✍️ Notes section.
• If you're writing a novel yourself, you can preview your manuscript like an e-book with view: book → E-book & Web Novel Viewer (that's a reading screen, while this library is a reading record — they're different!).

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