[Feature Request] Template should allow us to customize the frontmatter

[huyz]

My notes usually have created and updated fields in the frontmatter as part of the core Templates (which are then kept up to date by obsidian-linter).

It would be nice if the template setting actually included the current frontmatter that's injected by this plugin, so that I can add my own fields (also want to add tags:).

It would be even nicer too if the updated date could be filled in to be the most recent date of all the highlights/annotations that are synced. As for the created date, maybe it could be set to the oldest date.

[boehs]

Hi Huy,

Frontmatter is integral to the functionality obsidian-hypothesis, and implementing it in a non dangerous way will require deliberation. Are you ok with:

1. Keeping the doc_type and url frontmatter? It would be much much harder to ditch those
2. A very rudimentary implementation, you would be writing json like a caveman, no yaml for you!

Still, with those clauses this is absolutely possible and I would be happy to implement it

[boehs]

Actually I don't care about your opinion. Frontmatter here we come!!!!!! 😜

[huyz]

@boehs At first glance, sounds good to me. Any first iteration is a good idea.

[fncll]

Would this allow me to create a template such that the date the page of annotations was created was added to the metadata and not changed/replaced upon subsequent updates? This is what I would like to do in order to automate pulling in "things read on Date X" based on that being that initial date.

[dbobak]

Any progress with the possibility to use frontmatter in template? I'd love to have it!

[datavistics]

@boehs , is it possible to get the date (of the first annotation and/or the last update) at the article level in the front matter?

[lidorcg]

+1 It's the only thing that keeps me from using this plugin.

[datavistics]

@weichenw any chance you can take a look? 🙏