Default Properties

Default Properties automatically adds your chosen property fields to new Markdown notes. It adds only the property names and leaves the values empty for you to fill in.

Usage

1. Open Settings → Community plugins → Default Properties.
2. Add the property names you want on new notes.
3. Turn on the toggle beside each property that should be added.
4. Drag the handles (or use the arrow buttons on older Obsidian versions) to set the order.
5. Optionally limit which folders are affected under Folder scope.
6. Create a note. The enabled fields appear in its Properties view with empty values.

For example, enabling status and due date produces:

---
status:
due date:
---

If a new note already has frontmatter, for example from a template, missing fields are added after the existing ones. Keys that already exist are never duplicated or changed. Non-Markdown files are ignored.

Only notes you create are changed. Files that appear in your vault through sync, copying, or restoring keep their content untouched.

Folder scope

By default, every new Markdown note gets the enabled properties. Under Folder scope you can choose:

• All notes: apply everywhere (default).
• Only in these folders: apply only to notes created in the listed folders.
• All notes except these folders: apply everywhere except the listed folders.

Folder paths are relative to the vault root, such as Daily or Projects/Work, and include all subfolders. If Only in these folders is selected with no folders listed, no notes receive properties.

On Obsidian 1.13 and later, matching folders are suggested as you type, and these settings appear in the settings search.

License

MIT