Metadata Format

[ha1ix]

I posted as an issue instead of a discussion here about which metadata would be useful in a note. @gimalay response here (quoted below) was useful for describing how IWE manages metadata

`

• title is the first header in the note

• data/modified is part of the file metadata

• parent note in iwe can be defined using block-reference (MOC link)

• related is the pages lined to or from the note

• children are defined via block-references.
  `

1. Basically all of the useful information is already there, however it is not visible in the note except using definition/references LSP commands. Making it explicit in the note could be useful if I am viewing the notes in a different app without the benefit of IWE to logically link the notes. I am not sure how useful this is compared to the amount of work required to embed the information textually inside the note.

• Title as first header is great.
• Date as file metadata is fine, doesn't need to be textually embedded.
• parent/related/children works great as-is in IWE, but the context is lost (I think?) when viewing the notes in a different editor, for example on a mobile device.

Missing Metadata (in my personal usecase)

I use tags heavily in my note architecture. This is easy enough to continue to implement by hand. However it would be a slight quality of life improvement if new notes were automatically populated with a tags template. Keeping IWE simpler/more versatile is probably a better goal than automatically implementing a tags template to new notes. My tags, following #tag/subtag syntax which is accepted in many apps like Obsidian are something like:
`

tags: [
status/new
stage/idea,
progress/55
priority/2
category/markdown,
notes,
reference,
temporary,
github/discussion,
documentation
]

`
This allows me to easily search notes by status, progress, priority, and come up with my own taxonomies. For searching notes YAML is not necessary, I can just copy paste this template myself into new notes underneath the # Title-Header

The parent/related/children information, if it were textually embedded, could fit in the tags section somehow.

Reasoning

There are already tools for converting markdown to other usecases for static site generators, etc. Maybe we don't need to do anything to make IWE notes integrate with outside tools. I am just imagining a future situation where I would like to publish some IWE notes and having easily transferable metadata might make the process simpler down the line.

[ha1ix]

I am looking forward to setting up a note template using my opinonated tags, did not see if note templates was introduced yet.

[gimalay]

Could you please provide an example of template you looking to use and when you expect to use it.

The only way to create new files in IWE is extract note code action. Do you expect to have a custom template for extracted notes?

[ha1ix]

I discovered ncount recently for detailed word/paragraph count for directories/markdown files, it is maybe better left as a separate tool, but automatically including word count in metadata could be interesting.