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Attributes & the right sidebar

Note pills & the right sidebar

A row of pills sits at the right end of the note’s path, above the text:

  • Who and when — initials for the person who last edited the note and, if different, the person who created it, then how long ago it was last edited (“Not committed” for a note that has no commit yet). Hover for names. Opens Details.
  • Backlinks, Tags, Attributes — an icon and a count each. A pill at zero is dimmed but still clickable.

Clicking a pill opens the right sidebar on that section. While the sidebar is open, the pills move into the top of it and turn sections on and off there; a highlighted pill means its section is showing. Turning off the last section closes the sidebar, and opening it again from the toolbar (or Mod+Shift+\) shows every section.

The sidebar’s sections, in order:

  • Details — Created, Created by, Updated, Last edited by and Path, then the note’s history. These rows come from git and the file on disk, so they’re read-only; Path reveals the file in your file manager. Click a row’s label to choose whether it also shows in the attributes block in the document.
  • Backlinks — see Links.
  • Tags — the note’s tags; click one to filter by it.
  • Attributes — see Attributes panel.

Attributes panel

Attributes Mahfouz understands get a matching control; everything else is a free-form row. Both round-trip straight to the note’s YAML frontmatter, so they’re visible and hand-editable outside the app too.

The panel shows in two places: as a block in the document under the note’s first heading, and as a right-sidebar section (open it with the attributes pill — see Note pills).

The read-only Created, Updated and Path rows live in the sidebar’s Details section; the block in the document shows them only if you’ve chosen to there.

  • Render external images — a switch; see Media.
  • Orientation — Landscape / Portrait segmented control for PDF export (same as the toolbar button). Landscape is the default and writes no key.
  • Text, highlight, background color — a color swatch each, with a clear button once set (same as the toolbar color menu).
  • A free-form key/value table for anything else. A recognized key with a value its control can’t show (say orientation: sideways) stays in the table so you can fix it.