I've been using Obsidian for just over a month now and I'm still blown away by how powerful it is to use plain text files in this way. I love it.
I appreciated your write up on the Dataview plugin - I had it installed but was wimping out on instituting it because it seemed like it was more complex than it actually is. I already understand YAML and variables, I am just wrapping my head around adding that to all the notes I have in my vault, lol.