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https://github.com/mdelobelle/metadatamenu

For data management enthusiasts : type and manage the metadata of your notes.
https://github.com/mdelobelle/metadatamenu

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For data management enthusiasts : type and manage the metadata of your notes.

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# 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi4Uz7TZLOM)



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



[demo 1](https://youtu.be/7bvIAkJf0OE) : basic features, settings and field types



[demo 2](https://youtu.be/gU-StGyDciY ): autocompletion and "in sentence" fields commands



[demo 3](https://youtu.be/sYudigxPEnY): File type fields



[demo 4](https://youtu.be/PrbYaVh7N7g): Date type fields



[demo 5](https://youtu.be/Mq2tbA0RVM8): Templates for Input type fields:



[demo 6](https://youtu.be/QxXSuh7HUZY): FileClass



[demo 7](https://youtu.be/6dEk9no269g): Time shifting for spaced repetition or date postponing



[demo 8](https://youtu.be/ad0nJf8TZP8): Lookup fields



[demo 9](https://youtu.be/zUcZWG7nWF4): Lookup fields as bullet list



[demo 10](https://youtu.be/vc55ivQuHuY): Better Select and File fields



[demo 11](https://youtu.be/I73uW8fqOZ8): Supercharged Tags, multi fileClasses and metadata button



[demo 12](https://youtu.be/3jukvV7OODg): Fileclass View



[demo 13](https://youtu.be/7oaau8ijVUA): Canvas fields



[demo 14](https://youtu.be/G47AYkmoKJs): Create a Kanban board with Canvas Group fields



[demo 15](https://youtu.be/EhEJSxTzzBg): Nested fields (Object, Object List, Yaml, JSON)



[demo 16](https://youtu.be/Q0fPp3C3EaA): 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