Tablite

A fast, feature-rich CSV/TSV editor for Obsidian. Edit tabular data directly in your vault with an Excel-like experience.

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Features

• Virtual scrolling & progressive loading — handles large files smoothly with chunked rendering
• Inline editing — double-click any cell to edit
• Cell selection & cross highlight — single-click to select, with row/column cross highlight (toggleable)
• Column type detection — auto-detects STRING, NUMBER, DATE types per column
• Column sorting — click header to sort (multi-column supported)
• Smart column filtering
  • Text columns: free-text filter
  • Enum columns (< 12 unique values): multi-select dropdown with checkboxes
  • Number columns: min/max range filter
  • Date columns: date range picker
• Global search — search across all cells with highlight and navigation
• Auto delimiter detection — comma, semicolon, tab, pipe
• Excel export compatibility — auto-trims trailing empty columns from bloated spreadsheet exports
• Auto encoding detection — UTF-8 (with or without BOM), GBK, Windows-1252, Shift-JIS, UTF-16
• Encoding preserved on save — edits are written back in the file's own encoding (a GBK file stays GBK, so Excel keeps reading it). Picking an encoding in the toolbar converts the file straight away while leaving the displayed text untouched; the ↻ button next to it re-reads the file with the chosen encoding when the charset was detected wrongly. New files use the default from Settings → Tablite.
• Header detection — auto-detects whether first row is a header, with manual toggle
• Column management — hide/show, reorder via drag & drop, freeze columns
• Column resizing — drag column borders to resize
• Persistent column config — column widths, order, visibility, and freeze state are saved per file
• Context menu — right-click to insert/delete rows and columns
• Undo/Redo — full edit history (up to 50 steps)
• Obsidian-native styling — respects your theme colors and dark/light mode

Installation

From Community Plugins

Search for Tablite in Obsidian Settings → Community Plugins → Browse.

Via BRAT

1. Install BRAT plugin
2. In BRAT settings, select Add Beta Plugin
3. Enter laofahai/obsidian-tablite

Manual Installation

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release
2. Put the files into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/tablite/
3. Restart Obsidian and enable Tablite in Settings → Community Plugins

Usage

Open any .csv or .tsv file in your vault — Tablite automatically opens it as an editable table.

Set the default encoding for new files in Settings → Tablite. On Obsidian 1.13+ this option also appears in global settings search. Older versions retain the settings page; the minimum supported Obsidian version is 1.5.0.

Tech Stack

• Preact — lightweight UI
• TanStack Table — headless table logic (sorting, filtering)
• TanStack Virtual — row virtualization
• PapaParse — CSV parsing/serialization
• jschardet — encoding detection

Development

git clone https://github.com/laofahai/obsidian-tablite.git
cd obsidian-tablite
npm ci
npm run dev    # watch mode
npm run lint   # official Obsidian rules; zero warnings required
npx tsc --noEmit
npm test
npm run build  # production build

See AGENTS.md for repository development rules and CONTRIBUTING.md for validation and release follow-up steps. After publishing, maintainers must trigger Check for new releases in the Obsidian Community plugin dashboard and wait for the scan of the new version to complete before reporting the scorecard result.

Privacy and permissions

Tablite reads and writes the CSV/TSV files you open through Obsidian's vault API. The Copy action writes selected cells to the system clipboard. Tablite does not read the clipboard or upload table contents. Its bundled CSV parser includes a network-download implementation, but Tablite passes local text to the parser and does not enable that feature. Clicking a link in a cell opens its destination.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for development checks and release details.

License

MIT