Support JSON?

[ooker777]

I guess YALM is a kind of JSON, except that it doesn't fully support links (you use this format key: "[[link]]", but I heard that there is a case that you cannot put links in there. Unfortunately I don't fully remember the details). I just wonder why can't we use JSON in the file, like LaTeX or mermaid?

Case 1: list of links

text text:: value
subcategory: {[
  [[link 1]],
  [[link 2]] 
]} 

• I don't want to put this in the frontmatter, because it's more natural to have read this list at the bottom. Plus that links aren't fully supported in there

• If I use the Dataview inline, i.e. subcategory:: [[link 1]] [[link 2]], then it will be cluttered if there are many items and the links are long (alias won't help)

• If I use tasks instead, i.e.

  - [ ] [[link 1]]
  - [ ] [[link 2]] 
  

  then I can only query them with file.tasks, not with the actual key I want. The checkbox also gives me false impression.

• If I separate the list in multiple lines, i.e.

  subcategory:: [[link 1]]
  subcategory:: [[link 2]] 
  

  then it will be acceptable in this case if I ignore the repetition. So you can say this can be the solution for this particular case. But from here I just want to generalize the question

Case 2: declare metadata for non-existing files

[[link 1]] : {
  key 1: "value 1",
  key 2: "value 2" 
} 

While link 1 hasn't created yet. This is extremely useful if you are working with graph database. See the Link Types - Juggl