At the top of the file you can have a section where you define your properties. This section is known as the Front-Matter of the document and uses YAML formatting.
Be aware that this YAML section needs to be at the very top of the file to be valid.
For example, for this file, we have:
---
type: feature
keywords: hello world, bonjour
---
This sets the type of this document to feature and sets three keywords for the document: hello, world, and bonjour. The YAML parser will treat both spaces and commas as the separators for these YAML properties. If you want to use multi-word values for these properties, you will need to combine the words with dashes or underscores (i.e. instead of hello world, use hello_world or hello-world).
You can set as many custom properties for a document as you like, but there are a few special properties defined by Foam.
Some properties have special meaning for Foam:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
title |
will assign the name to the note that you will see in the graph, regardless of the filename or the first heading (also see how to [write-notes-in-foam]) |
type |
can be used to style notes differently in the graph (also see [graph-visualization]). The default type for a document is note unless otherwise specified with this property. |
tags |
can be used to add tags to a note (see [tags]) |
For example:
---
title: "Note Title"
type: "daily-note"
tags: daily, funny, planning
---
There also exists properties that are even more specific to Foam templates, see [note-templates#Metadata] for more info.