YAML frontmatter¶
Markdown being a simple format, it does not offer any way to attach additional
metadata to a note. The community came up with a solution by inserting a YAML
header at the top of each note to contain its metadata. This method is widely
supported among Zettelkasten softwares, including zk.
---
title: Improve the structure of essays by rewriting
date: 2011-05-16 09:58:57
keywords: [writing, essay, practice]
---
zk supports the following metadata:
Key |
Description |
|---|---|
|
Title of the note – takes precedence over the first heading |
|
Creation date – takes precedence over the file date |
|
List of tags attached to this note |
|
Alias for |
|
Alternative titles for this note, used by |
All metadata are indexed and can be printed in zk list output, using the
template variable {{metadata.<key>}}, e.g. {{metadata.description}}. The
keys are normalized to lower case.