Book Library: Keep Track of Your Reading List in Obsidian

The best book tracker setup.

If you read a lot of books, and take notes on them, its important to create a book library to organize them.

In other tools like Notion, it's fairly simple. But in Obsidian, you’ve to do some extra work.

In this article, I will step-by-step guide, I’ll show you how you can create a book library to organize your book notes in Obsidian.

By the end of this article, you’ll be able to create a book tracker setup that looks like this.

Let’s begin the setup.

Auto-Populating Book Notes

The first step is to automate the process of creating book notes with relevant metadata.

Metadata aka. properties are the most important part of our setup. We need to add relevant metadata to our book notes. For e.g. Title, Author, Pages, etc.

We use dataview plugin to create queries using the metadata.

Manually adding metadata to our boook notes is time-consuming and inefficient. First you’ll need to search…