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Frontmatter is a common format to attach additional metadata (data about data) to markdown documents. Many tools support it as a markdown Markdown/Extensions.
In SilverBullet, there are multiple ways to attach Metadata to a page; frontmatter is the most popular one.
You create frontmatter by starting your markdown document with --- followed by YAML encoded attributes and then ending with --- again. Followed by the regular body of your document. This very page contains some frontmatter, click on it to see the underlying code.
Here is another example:
---
status: Draft
tags:
- tag1
- tag2
seeAlso: "[[YAML]]"
---
## This is a section
This is content
For convenience, you may use the attribute.subAttribute notation, which internally will expand:
attribute.subAttribute: 10
to
attribute:
subAttribute: 10
Special attributes
While SilverBullet allows arbitrary metadata to be added to pages, there are a few attributes with special meaning:
name(==DISALLOWED==): is an attribute used for page names, you should not set it.displayName(string): very similar in effect asaliasesbut will use this name for the page in certain contexts.aliases(array of strings): allow you to specify a list of alternative names for this page, which can be used to navigate or link to this pagetags(array of stringsorstring): an alternative (and perhaps preferred) way to assign Tags to a page. There are various ways to define these, take your pick:tags: tag1, tag2 # with commas tags: tag1 tag2 # with spaces tags: "#tag1 #tag2" # with pound signs and quotes (you get completion) tags: # as a list - tag1 - tag2 tags: # as a list with pound signs and quotes - "#tag1" - "#tag2"
For specific use cases, like ^Library/Std/Page Templates or ^Library/Std/Slash Templates, frontmatter may have specific meaning.