# Metadata standard **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature archive\ **Created:** [May 29, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/metadata-standard/802 "2020-05-29T23:55:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![WhiteNoise](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/whitenoise/32/11_2.png) [@WhiteNoise](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/WhiteNoise)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/metadata-standard/802/14 "2020-09-22T15:37:30Z")
> [@Include / show note links in yaml frontmatter (v0.8.5)](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/include-show-note-links-in-yaml-frontmatter-v0-8-5/4673/8): > > The current idea is to use the YAML block for dev\plugins metadata. We are finalizing this decision. Users should not really use the YAML metadata directly. If users want to use a frontmatter, they can do so outside the YAML block, i.e. --- YAML metadata --- your frontmatter --- main text or --- YAML metadata --- # your frontmatter bla bla bla --- main text > [@Include / show note links in yaml frontmatter (v0.8.5)](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/include-show-note-links-in-yaml-frontmatter-v0-8-5/4673/11): > > Just want to let everyone know that YAML frontmatter is typically removed from the source code when rendering, and the variables stored are used as metadata for whichever app is reading it. Right now we aren’t using it to store anything, but in the future, plugins would be able to access a built-in way of making decisions based on the data inside the frontmatter. This may mean showing some UI that contains data, such as tags showing as a tag list on top of the file, or links that render as “re… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/metadata-standard/802)._