Syncing a Title: field in the YAML frontmatter works for me as well.
I currently have the following YAML frontmatter in a common template:
---
Title: 202103141624
Summary:
Tags:
Note Type: #NoteType/TBD
Created: 2021-03-14 16:24
---
So having an option to sync the first H1 heading (within the first # lines), or sync the specified YAML tag (e.g.: “Title:”) would give lots of flexibility.
Mike
Thanks for supplying the requested information, I had put this a bit far back in my mind… Hope it can be helpful in adding this functionality.
I don’t see a way to designate the files to be ignored - is that in a settings file in the plugin directory? Within the file itself? Any help would be appreciated. I tried adding info to the data.json file in the obsidian-filename-heading-sync plugin directory, but either that isn’t where it goes or I’m not formatting the data correctly.
Also, I don’t see anything in the UI beneath the “Ignored files” header. It is totally blank in the bottom of the dialog.
@sararkin Great plugin! How can I deactivate the automatism for the contents of my templates folder?
Sorry if that’s unclear. I’ll add some explanation to that settings page
This plugin packs an action that you can call through the action palette on any file, so if you have a file currently open you want to ignore, open the palette and select ignore this file. It’ll add it to that settings pane
Great plug-in, thanks a lot! However, for the current state of my vault, it’s the wrong way around. Is there a way to set it up so that it renames files (according to the header)?
On popular request, it is now possible to set regex ignore patterns
This can be used to, for example:
templates/
tmp
[0-9]+\ \-\
Is there any chance an option could be added to make this work in one direction? Maybe a three-option selector:
My own use case is strictly that last one, where I always adjust the filename to match whatever I’ve changed the heading to, and not the other way around.
To go with this, it would be useful to have an way to set what illegal characters get replaced with in a filename - by default an empty string (“Test: Thing” becomes “Test Thing”), but some might wish to set it to “-” or other placeholders (“Test: Thing” becomes “Test- Thing”).
Useful plugin for me! Save me much time. Thanks a lot!
Is it possible to skip YAML attributes block and start searching 1-st header after the attributes block? Otherwise, it breaks the attributes.
Any progress on this?
This. I have a bunch of ill-named .md files that I’d like to fix from their contents i.e. from the title inside the file.
Hello. I’ve found a bug that was caused by your plugin.
Double open the same note via a link from a note which has been added in the sidebar, delete all content inside this note.
Screen capture: iCloud
Content isn’t deleting when double-clicking on a link in a sidebar note.
Hi! I’m the author of that plugin but wasn’t able to reproduce your issues no matter what I tried. I still added a few changes to harden the plugin.
Do you have some steps to reproduce? Can you post a list with all plugins you have installed? It feels to me it might be an interaction between 2 things
Github thread: Data-loss · Issue #18 · dvcrn/obsidian-filename-heading-sync · GitHub
BTW I have also added support for YAML frontmatter skipping and squashed a few other smaller bugs in the same step.
New update will be out in a bit
I’ve had the same issue. My active plugins are:
thanks, your plugin is precious!!
Do you have some steps to reproduce this?
I’ve pushed v1.4.0 with some bug fixes and frontmatter support. Please update if this issue pops up again
This is most helpful! Thanks. And thanks for the update to allow excluding files. That really made it possible for me to safely install this! 
When I add a link in a note, then I “cmd click” on this link, it creates a file with the link as filename but then the plugin doesn’t create the title . Normal?
1.5.0 has been released today which should address this. Can you give it a try?