Properties (Frontmatter) Reference

Properties use YAML frontmatter at the start of a note:

---
title: My Note Title
date: 2024-01-15
tags:
  - project
  - important
aliases:
  - My Note
  - Alternative Name
cssclasses:
  - custom-class
status: in-progress
rating: 4.5
completed: false
due: 2024-02-01T14:30:00
---

Property Types

Type	Example
Text	`title: My Title`
Number	`rating: 4.5`
Checkbox	`completed: true`
Date	`date: 2024-01-15`
Date & Time	`due: 2024-01-15T14:30:00`
List	`tags: [one, two]` or YAML list
Links	`related: " Other Note"`

Default Properties

tags - Note tags (searchable, shown in graph view)
aliases - Alternative names for the note (used in link suggestions)
cssclasses - CSS classes applied to the note in reading/editing view

Tags

#tag
#nested/tag
#tag-with-dashes
#tag_with_underscores

Tags can contain: letters (any language), numbers (not first character), underscores _, hyphens -, forward slashes / (for nesting).

In frontmatter:

---
tags:
  - tag1
  - nested/tag2
---

01 Jan, 0001