I like to use tools that allow me the freedom to bend them to my needs. For a long time I've been challenged by the fact that I can't find a tool that does markdown, provides a nice interface, and has a decent toolkit ( or doesn't get in the way ). I had settled on Obsidian, which works well, and I can recommend it, but I never bonded with it.
A little while back I discovered Notenik, which describes itself as a notetaking app. It's quite a lot more than that. Though it's focus is on writing and text, not on numbers, it sits somewhere between a database and a spreadsheet. It's a little bit quirky but I like it a lot. Fun fact: It's design is influenced by FileMaker and it's strongly geared to producing web content.
Like a lot of other markdown based notetaking tools, Notenik expects that you'll organise your notes into folders. Notenik calls that a collection. Unlike other Markdown tools, but very like a table in FileMaker, you get to define your collection by creating fields. For simple needs you do that via a wizard. For advanced needs you customise using a text editor. So, just like FileMaker databases are different, each Notenik collection can be very different.
Each item in a collection behaves as a record in FileMaker. And just like FileMaker, Notenik provides a nice interface for you to enter your data. It also provides a Display mode, will allows you to display your data in a reader friendly way. You can control the layout display if you want too: using HTML/CSS templates, merge variables, and scripting.
It provides a plain text search, which simple takes you to the next note that contains the text. If your text appears in a lot of notes, you keep cycling through them all. 
But it also provides a Query Wizard which allows you to search specific fields, and it produces a found set in a separate window. These queries can be saved and modified using Notenik's simple scripting language. The queries use templates too, so with a little imagination your output can be HTML/CSS, or CSV, or SQL. It's really up to you.
Notenik is an open-source project, and free to use. A big bonus is that the developer is very responsive. I've already had a couple of features added simply by asking for them in the forum. That's encouraging. 