Metadata Menu

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 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

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
Date: a field that will Accept a date
Lookup: a field that will Accept a lookup query

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

manage indented lists multi-values frontmatter field

Know Issue

autocomplete conflicts with Various Complements plugin