I’ve seen a little discussion, but please excuse me if I missed something… Is there an accepted “standard” for Note metadata? Are we putting a YAML block at the top? Just using tags (that doesn’t really cover it) - I would like the ability to deal with custom metadata. Obviously I can (and will)…

No Obsidian standard yet, but I suspect it will be YAML

As others said, there’s no “standard”, but YAML is the most popular and the most likely, yes.

A few YAML-related issues: There are potential conflicts between the YAML spec and Obsidian. # is a reserved character for comments, and [] are reserved characters for flow styles. What does that mean for including tags and links? There is a bug in edit mode where in YAML front-matter bounded by -…

I use YAML because it exists and is commonly used. Would be equally happy with alternative.

A couple of points. --- above and below text/data is not recognised in Obsidian as Yaml; in e.g. Typora it is, I believe it’s normal markdown, if I am not mistaken. I have noticed that a Yaml code block can be created with, on an empty line, 3 backticks and the word yaml, then, on the next lin…

[image] Klaas: --- above and below text/data is not recognised in Obsidian as Yaml; in e.g. Typora it is, I believe it’s normal markdown, if I am not mistaken. By definition YAML isn’t markdown, but many programs accept it for the utility of the Front Matter conventions. The — fences are a si…

Thanks for that. By definition YAML isn’t markdown, but many programs accept it for the utility of the Front Matter conventions. OK, sorry for that mistake. Personally, I’d most like the developers to decide soon . I’d rather implement a method than not, but it’s off-putting to be aware it mi…

MultiMarkdown officially supports YAML frontmatter for metadata. This is also used by several online blogs that take raw markdown submissions for articles. It’s also used by several static site generators - like Hugo and Jekyl. It seems to be the de facto standard if we want to extend markdown docum…

YAML front matter is very important, used already by all major markdown editors, and is standard in MultiMarkDown. if it gets properly managed by Obsidian, we could in the future write plugins to read/write/manage the metadata and it’ll be awesome!

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ksandvik May 30, 2020, 12:15am 2

YAML is pretty common.