MentisCell – Notes Best Practices: Metadata
Summary
All important information and metadata must be part of the note itself.
Relying on OS metadata leads to errors and inconsistencies.
Link to this note
MentisCell – Notes Best Practices: Metadata
Content
- Metadata should be explicit in the note.
- Use frontmatter (YAML) for global properties.
- Use body fields for contextual or section-specific data.
- Recommended fields:
created,modified,date,tags,aliases. - Quality of input determines quality of output.
Essence
- Metadata = traceability.
- Explicit > implicit.
- Input quality = output quality.
Interconnections
- Hub – Notes Best Practices
- Standards and formats
- Templates and automation
- Dates and temporal properties
Tags
#metadata #quality #bestpractices #mentiscraft
Contributors
Created with the support of Microsoft Copilot on 2025-10-04.
Validated and edited by Jorge Godoy.