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Notes Can Store Structured Information In Yaml Header

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You can use YAML front matter to keep some structured information about the note:

---
created: 2022-02-11-1523
title: Note Title
type: note
tags: [tag1, tag2]
---

It’s a superset of JSON, and there are parsers for every major programming language.

Having structured information helps with Linked notes should be searchable.

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