Problem
As you fill in Properties, when you re-enter them, auto-complete suggestions for the Properties you are entering are offered based on the text you enter.
The nuance is that only those options that are already used in other files appear among the auto-complete suggestions. If a particular Property does not exist in any of the files, it will not be offered for auto-complete.
This is inconvenient for me because I only use the mobile version of Obsidian as a «draft» where I jot down my thoughts when I don’t have access to a computer. From time to time, I transfer all my notes to my computer, to my main vault, and integrate them into the system.
Once all the notes are transferred to the computer, the mobile vault is practically empty, and the information about the Properties used is canceled, and autocomplete suggestions no longer appear.
All Properties have to be entered manually each time, which is very inconvenient to do on a phone.
Proposed solution
I would like the information about the Properties used to be stored somewhere and be available even if the files with these Properties are missing – Vault Cache (but then they will be deleted when cleaning the Vault Cache…)?
But if everything is saved indiscriminately, then even incorrectly entered Properties will be saved, for example, so it is necessary to implement a place where all saved Properties can be managed – add those needed for auto-fill and be able to delete unnecessary ones. I imagine this as a separate item in the settings.
Perhaps there is another solution to this inconvenience.
If it needs to be mentioned separately, I am mainly interested in this feature (solution of this problem) for the mobile version of Obsidian – I don’t have this problem on the desktop version.
Current workaround
One option would be to create a single service-file containing all the properties used and their variants. Then, even with the current implementation of storing information about the properties used and making auto-suggestions based on them, it would be possible to achieve the desired result.
In my case, it will be enough simply not to transfer this file to the computer along with other files.
But… a little tired of workarounds and would like a more elegant solution.
Related feature requests
- Show existing values in Properties view – This is also somewhat related to the organization/management of Properties.