Toggle Frontmatter
in progress
Mike Erickson
Looks nice!
Eduard Metzger
in progress
Working on it! This is a rough mockup (already coded)
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Len Damico
Eduard Metzger Looks like there are data types associated with those pieces of front matter… does that mean you can enforce your data to be a string, a number, a date, etc?
(Looks great btw!)
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Daniel Danilov
Eduard Metzger Looks great, thank you for working on this! Excited to see how it will turn out :) especially now that we have more options for filtering/sorting/kanban views etc. So many possibilities!
Eduard Metzger
Len Damico I will be all text for now, but we should probably have data types as well
Eduard Metzger
Merged in a post:
Folding for frontmatter (YAML)
Chris
Make frontmatter foldable (and perhaps default to folded and, perhaps remember the folded state, not for each individual note but as an editor setting, i.e. when last viewed note had frontmatter folded, keep it so)
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tf
Yes please!!
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Daniel Danilov
I'd love to learn more about how you're all using all of that data with NotePlan! I know how it can be used in Obsidian etc, but how are you making it actionable in NotePlan?
Edwin Jr.
Daniel Danilov:
- We can search for the data in there. Especially if those properties get some attention in filters.
- We can, hopefully, if not natively, through a plug-in create entire notes that update based on specific parameters. I.e the Stub Wiki plugin allows you to look at at that lists all current stubs.
- Since all files are .md, we can leverage it in other applications. I know I am not the only one that accesses their NP files in other applications.
- It can work like templates. Which populate in different areas based on the template type.
- Speaking of templates, we can use the templater plugin to generate dynamic placeholders that pull specific metadata. Instead of filling for title or date, we can define a type and add display that when generating a note from template.
If they give us the functionality, we will use it. It is incredibly popular is many PKM tools and it is a fantastic way to keep your nota clean while still having useful data linked to it.
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Daniel Danilov
Edwin Jr.: Thanks for elaborating! I agree, and have seen multiple use cases since my comment last year.
I especially like Obsidian's approach (with the table format) to the frontmatter and think it would be incredible powerful for NotePlan.