Insert backlinks or other metadata with templater

[JayKim]

Hi, I’m not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I use dataview functionality in my templates. Here is an example:

Wikilinks in YAML front matter

I wanted to share another approach to have a frontmatter with wikilinks. I make use of a hidden text block, that is in between %%. In addition to that I make use of the plugin Dataview and that is all. The top of a note could look like this, and could be a used in a template: %% created:: 2023-01-26 updated:: 2023-01-26 type:: [[Research]] rating:: 3 parents:: [[Parent1]], [[Parent2]] %% `=[[Dataview]].frontmatter1` ## Abstract The line =[[Dataview]].frontmatter1 determines how the data wi…

And you can retrieve data from another note like this:

`=[[Note Name]].file.inlinks`

or

`=link("Note Name").file.inlinks`