Front matter support

[gglanzani]

I was wondering if front matter support (via yaml, f.e.) will be available in the future.

It would allow extra metadata such as date

---
title: Remote Working Policy
author: Giovanni Lanzani
date: 2024.06.14
---

[dullage]

This isn't something that I have any plans for, but wouldn't be against it if there were sufficient demand.

[w33ble]

I just started using flatnotes (nice app btw) and was surprised it wasn't already using front matter. It's more common in flat file blogging platforms in my experience, but I had assumed going in that that's where it would keep track of tags and other metadata. I also imagine that knowing the creation date would be helpful as your notes library grows, and creation date could possibly be another sorting option too.

[deuts]

I agree with adding front matter support. So my markdown notes will also be usable across other platforms. Thanks.

[iocouto]

The use-cases for flatnotes would grow exponentially if front matter searching was supported:

• it could be used as a headless blog CMS, if able to search by information such as author and published-date.
• it could be used as a headless catalog CMS for eCommerce, if able to search by info such as SKU, type and manufacturer
• it could be used as a headless backend for a support ticketing system, if able to search by ID, status, assigned, and more.

[jhult]

For reference, here is Joplin's front matter spec.