Introduction to KizunaShelf: A shelf for everything you love
KizunaShelf is a new tool designed to help users track personal media collections like books, anime, and games using a flexible, file-based database system. It aims to solve the friction of manual metadata management by allowing users to define their own schemas within Obsidian.
Why it matters
It reflects a growing trend in the 'personal knowledge management' community toward data sovereignty and the 'files over apps' philosophy.
Everyone has a way of tracking what has left a mark on their life, whether it’s a book, a movie, a TV show, an anime, or a song. Sometimes it’s an online service with a massive catalog, but you’re always at the mercy of the platform deciding what stays and what goes. Other times, it’s a delightful, well-designed offline mobile app, but your varied interests rarely fit into a single predefined catalog or data model. Plus, those apps and services could vanish tomorrow.
The article is a developer-authored product introduction that focuses on utility and user control.
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