Every note needs these:

  • description: — one line on what the folder/note is and why it matters. Every folder note (Folder/Folder.md) carries one. An agent orienting in the vault fetches these directly.
  • publish: true — the only gate to the public site. Only Alexandre sets it; everything else stays private.
  • unlisted: true — published but not linked from the site’s index pages; still reachable at its own URL.
  • categories: [...] — links to a folder’s note (categories: ["[[Meaning]]", "[[Work]]"]). Says a note belongs with a project’s content regardless of which folder it physically sits in; more than one value is real cross-folder membership, which is the point.
  • Category: ... with rule, value, and other big category that makes sense and isn’t related to a folder.
  • Tags: # it often makes more sense to use tags here if they apply to the whole note.
  • A whole note an agent wrote start to finish should use the generated- frontmatter keys, they carry author and timestamp a tag can’t, and then include a llmwritten Tags, for instance:
    generated-by: claude-sonnet-5
    generated-at: 2026-08-03
    generated-confidence: 90