Do you place a heading at the top of your file?

[Eugleo]

Well, as the title says — do you leave it at the filename to describe the file’s contents, or do you use a. # Heading as well? I think headings are better for flexibility (they are visible in every other editor as well), but then you have some minor problems with notes transclusion (you basically have to link to the heading directly, to prevent duplication, which is worse for transferability to other apps).

[sam.baron]

See related feature request:

Use H1 heading instead of or in addition to filename as display name

I’m interested in a setting that would use a note’s H1 heading instead of or in addition to the filename as the display name everywhere: links, backlinks, graph view, search, etc. How would this be useful: For users who use IDs as filenames or who generally want more concise filenames Use illegal filename characters in note titles More readable graph, search, backlinks, etc. Other assumptions/thoughts/questions: Is this global or feature-specific? By feature-specific, I mean toggling note …

[austin]

I have the same question. Do you add an h1 at the top of your files? If so, why? If not, why?

Newbies need your wisdom.

I thought this would be good for future-proofing: the file is complete as an html file w/ the h1 at the top. It also allows a slightly different title than the file name.

However, it makes some things in Obsidian annoying.

For example, it makes file embeds look dumb. (I do a hack now where a top paragraph is a summary of the note with the title in bold and a brief description that I can include as a block in place of a standard internal link.)