There are several optional metadata properties that you can specify:
- location - location where the content was created. E.g. ‘New York’.
- description - short description of the content.
- date - date of the creation. Format YYYY-MM-DD. E.g. ‘2022-07-15’
- tags - comma separated tags/keywords.
- language - two letter language code.
- RTL - left to right text orientation.
Special Note’s Metadata
| name | value | description |
| pinned | yes/no (Default: no) | Pin the note to the top of the collection page. |
| showInFooter | yes/no (Default: no) | Show the note in the footer navigation and remove it from the default navigation. |
| author | Name of the author | Name of the author if site has multiple authors. For each author you need to create page in “authors” folder inside your site. |
| emoji | Default: none | You can add emoji property and it will be used as favicon for this page. Use single emoji only. |
| date | Default: Apple note date | Date when this note was originally created. Useful if you published it before creating Apple Note. |
| slug | Default: from title | If you don't like generated URL slugs for your notes, you can specify custom one. |
| showBreadcrumbs | yes/no (Default: no) | Show folder name before the Note title. |
| showInMenu | yes/no (Default: yes) | Show note in the main list/menu. |
| showNoteNavigation | yes/no (Default: no) | Show links to the previous and next notes. |
| showNoteFooter | yes/no (Default: yes) | Show global footer on each Note's page. |
| showNoteMetadata | yes/no (Default: no) | Show metadata on Note's page. |
| dateFormat | Default: YYYY-MM-DD | Format of dates on the note page. |
| fontFamily | Default: helvetica | Other values "sans-serif", "avenir", "athelas", "georgia", "times", "bodoni", "calisto", "garamond", "baskerville" |
| fontSize | Default: 16px | Any value. |
| codeHighlight | yes/no (Default: no) | Highlight monospace text as code. |
Special Collection’s Metadata
Home page and any folder page are considered “collection” pages. If you want to customize behavior of collection create special note called “index”(in the root of your site or for each specific folder as you wish).| name | value | description |
| title | Default: collection name | Set custom collection title that is different from the folder name. |
| showChildren | yes/no (Default: yes) | If set to “no” it will disable rendering of links to the notes and folders inside this collection. |
| sortBy | title/update/create (Default: create) | Sort notes by create date, updated date or title. |
| RTL | yes/no (Default: no) | If set to “yes”, the text in all the notes in this folder will go right to left. |
| showBreadcrumbs | yes/no (Default: no) | Show folder name before the Note title. |
| showInMenu | yes/no (Default: yes) | Show folder in the main list/menu. |
| showNoteNavigation | yes/no (Default: no) | Show links to the previous and next notes. |
| showNoteFooter | yes/no (Default: yes) | Show global footer on each Note's page. |
| showNoteMetadata | yes/no (Default: no) | Show metadata on Note's page. |
| dateFormat | Default: MMM D, YYYY | Format of dates on the preview pages. |
| fontFamily | Default: helvetica | Other values "sans-serif", "avenir", "athelas", "georgia", "times", "bodoni", "calisto", "garamond", "baskerville" |
| fontSize | Default: 16px | Any value. |
| layout | List, feed, grid, table(Default: timeline) | Layout option that dictates how notes should be shown on the folder/collection page. By default they are show as a list. |