Obsidian Properties Meets Sidenotes
And breaks them, unless you adopt some workarounds.
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2 min readJul 28, 2023
Obsidian has released a major rethink of managing file metadata (or front matter) called Properties.
This is not a review of Properties. This is an explanation of some workaround you’ll need to undertake if you a/ upgrade Obsidian to a version offering Properties, and b/ if you are trying to use TfTHacker’s new Tufte-style sidenotes implementation. I wrote about sidenotes, here: