Obsidian/copilot/skills/obsidian-bases/references/FUNCTIONS_REFERENCE.md

Bases functions reference

Global functions

Function	Purpose
date(value)	Parse a date string
duration(value)	Parse a duration string
now() / today()	Current date-time / date
if(condition, yes, no?)	Conditional value
number(value)	Convert to number
link(path, display?)	Create a link
file(path)	Resolve a file object
list(value)	Normalize a value to a list
image(path) / icon(name)	Create renderable values

Common methods

• String: contains, startsWith, endsWith, lower, trim, replace, split, isEmpty.
• Number: abs, ceil, floor, round, toFixed.
• List: contains, containsAll, containsAny, filter, map, reduce, flat, join, sort, unique.
• File: asLink, hasLink, hasTag, hasProperty, inFolder.
• Link: asFile, linksTo.
• Object: keys, values, isEmpty.
• Regular expression: matches.

Date fields include year, month, day, hour, minute, and second. Date methods include date(), format(), time(), and relative().

Duration fields are days, hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds. Duration does not directly support number rounding methods.