In order to add metadata to each note you should create a table with two columns: “name” and “value”. Like this: 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.
You can add any additional metadata property that you consider valuable.

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”, “code”
fontSize Default: 16px Any value.
backgroundColor Default: white Use hex code.
textColor Default: black Use hex code.
titleColor Default: black Use hex code.
codeHighlight yes/no (Default: no) Highlight monospace text as code.
hideFooterLinks Default: no Hide all the links in footer.
hideHeader Default: no Hide the header of the page.

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.
backgroundColor Default: white Use hex code.
textColor Default: black Use hex code.
titleColor Default: black Use hex code.
listItemTitleColor Default: black Use hex code.
openExternalLinksInNewTab Default: no If set to "yes" will force all external links to be opened in new tab.
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.
hideFooterLinks Default: no Hide all the links in footer.
hideHeader Default: no Hide the header of the page.
linksUnderlined Default: no Underline links.
resetHeaderStyle Default: no Use it to remove special formatting for titles and breadcrumbs.
resetBoxStyle Default: no Use it to reset styles for next/prev post boxes and newsletter subscribe box.
newsletterSubscribeButton Default: Subscribe Customize subscribe button text.
newsletterSubscribeCallToAction Default: Sign up for newsletter Customize subscribe input text.
noteNavigationStyle Default: none If you set "showNoteNavigation" to 'yes' navigation will be shown as boxes at the bottom of the page. If you set it to "arrow" - it will show up as two arrows at the top.
width Default: none If you want layout to spread and take 100% of the page set it to "wide".
Metadata is merged this way: note's metadata takes precedence over folder's metadata and folder's over site's.