Add source metadata as page properties

[dekimsey]

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🔖 Feature description

I'd like to be able to see information regarding the source content. The what, when, where and how.

✔️ Solution

I think it'd be cool if the template values (to give an example) were dumped out as a Properties header in the doc.

For instance, this would look like:

---
source: https://youtube.com/some/video
title: The original potentially unescaped title
method: youtube
date: 2023-03-01T13:01:22Z
---

Properties may have types. I'm not sure if that matters in the API. But it does render nicer if set.

Possibly worth considering namespacing the properties, e.g., readitlater:source or ril:source.

❓ Alternatives

A current work-around is to embed this information into the note templates. But there are many, and when the project adds a new one it won't be configured. As document metadata, this could be cool to auto-add.

Manually going in and editing the document after download to at minimum indicate the URL it came from and the approximate date of capture.

📝 Additional Context

My real intention is to be able to use ReaditLater as an archiver. Many of my notes include references to third party URLs where I learned how to do X or Y. However, a few of them have died or are no longer available at that URL. I think ReadItLater is potentially well suited to be a very cool way (short of Archive.org) to take snapshots of references I find on the Internet.

To accomplish this I think there are two features missing:

• Long-term storage of docs all being in the same directory
• Defining file properties to back-reference the source content (this issue)

Thank you!

[dekimsey]

While adding all the overrides, I'm beginning to think this instead should be more of a doc or HOWTO for awareness purposes instead of requiring any actual code changes. Or perhaps the default templates could use this format instead of or in addition to the current [[ReadItLater]] [[Vimeo]].

Anyway, this can be done with the existing note templates and that's good enough!

That being said, I do think there's something about the idea of having a (date, source) key that could make it possible to 'refresh' the content.