1/5 Obsidian Survey on frontmatter (YAML)
Please answer these questions:
Do you use YAML in your notes? (frontmatter or inline fields)
Do you like YAML?
What do you dislike about YAML?
YAML is cumbersome to work with but does add a "database" like layer to our notes. #TfT
Please answer these questions:
Do you use YAML in your notes? (frontmatter or inline fields)
Do you like YAML?
What do you dislike about YAML?
YAML is cumbersome to work with but does add a "database" like layer to our notes. #TfT
2/5 While I don't find YAML hard to work with, it does create a fair amount of "busy" work in Obsidian. This si one of the appeals to me of a tool like Tana, which provides more UI for quickly working with schema and inputting data.
3/5 On the other hand, Markdown is not a database and doesn't have a way of capturing schema like information. This is why some tools like Obsidian have added a "schema" layer.
4/5 When I started with Obsidian, I thought few users would use YAML. But surprisingly, many do learn it. But they don't really have much choice.
So do you like YAML? Dislike it? i
So do you like YAML? Dislike it? i
5/5 I think the real question is: Is there a better alternative for capturing structured data in markdown?
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