Metadata Menu

⭐ Looking for contributors ⭐ I unfortunately can't dedicate much time anymore on Metadata Menu, but there are many things that still need to be done: UI, new types, go deeper in data structure management and integration with canvas and properties, documentation...

You're more than welcome to submit PRs, and I will gladly help and mentor :)

This plugin is made for data quality enthusiasts: access and manage the metadata of your notes in Obsidian.

Metadata Menu adds context menu items to modifiy target note's frontmatter fields and "inline fields" (dataview syntax) by right-clicking on the link, or within dataview tables

You can define preset types and values for those fields globally in the plugin's settings or on a file-by-file basis thanks to fileClass definition

It also enables frontmatter of inline-field autocompletion with suggested values based on preset values.

For a complete walk-through, here is an excellent showcase by Danny Hatcher: complete demo

For complete documentation : https://mdelobelle.github.io/metadatamenu

demo 1 : basic features, settings and field types

demo 2: autocompletion and "in sentence" fields commands

demo 3: File type fields

demo 4: Date type fields

demo 5: Templates for Input type fields:

demo 6: FileClass

demo 7: Time shifting for spaced repetition or date postponing

demo 8: Lookup fields

demo 9: Lookup fields as bullet list

demo 10: Better Select and File fields

demo 11: Supercharged Tags, multi fileClasses and metadata button

demo 12: Fileclass View

demo 13: Canvas fields

demo 14: Create a Kanban board with Canvas Group fields

demo 15: Nested fields (Object, Object List, Yaml, JSON)

demo 16: Fileclass tableviews

General concepts

Metadata Menu can manage any metadata field located in frontmatter (YAML syntax) or in the body of the note with the syntax field:: (dataview style)

Field Types

Metadata Menu gives a type to each field. Available types are:

• Input (free text) : this is the default type applied to each field if nothing is set for this field (see #Field settings). it will Accept any value
• Boolean: a field that can Accept true or false or null value
• Number: a field that can Accept a number (float) value, optionaly within a range (min, max) and can be in/decremented by a step value (default 1)
• Select: a field that can Accept a single value from a list
• Multi: a field that can Accept multiple values from a list
• Cycle: a field that will Cycle through values from a list
• File: a field that will Accept a link to a file from your vault
• MultiFile: a field that will Accept multiple links
• Media: a field that will Accept a link to a media file from your vault
• MultiMedia: a field that will Accept multiple links to media files
• Date: a field that will Accept a date
• DateTime: a field that will Accept a date with time
• Time: a field that will Accept a time
• Lookup: a field that will Accept a lookup query
• Canvas: a field that will Update with links in a canvas
• Canvas Group: a field that will Update with groups in a canvas
• Canvas Group Link: a field that will Update with groups links in a canvas
• JSON: a field that will Accept a JSON object
• YAML: a field that will Accept a YAML object
• Object: a field that will Accept a collection of fields
• Object List: a field that will Accept a list of collection of fields

Field settings

By default each field is an Input

You can define a field setting for each field.

A field setting is composed of:

• a name
• a type (see ## Field Types list above)
• options depending on the type

A field setting can defined in:

• Metadata Menu settings (see # Metadata Menu Settings)
• in a fileClass note (see # Fileclass)

NB: if a field has a setting defined in the Metadata Menu settings AND in a fileClass note, the setting of the fileClass will take the priority over the setting defined in Metadata Menu settings

Controls

a Field can be modified or added from several locations:

• autocompletion within the editor mode
• Obsidian and plugins menus : file explorer, note, calendar, context menu of a link, many other plugins not fully tested ...
• dataview table if you have dataview plugin installed

Roadmap

Know Issue

• autocomplete conflicts with Various Complements plugin