Omnivore Frontmatter for Obsidian & Digital Garden

Publishing Omnivore notes from Obsidian to Digital Garden

The challenge I have encountered with publishing my notes synced from Omnivore is that if a note gets resynced, it overrides the frontmatter. Digital Garden relies on adding the frontmatter dg-publish: true to notes in order to publish them, and this gets removed during the resync. Thankfully there's a workaround – Omnivore's Obsidian plugin allows you to customise the frontmatter template for synced articles using the Mustache language, so I added the following lines to the template:

dg-publish: true
dg-metatags:
 description: "{{{description}}}"
 "og:image": "https://i.imgur.com/LmCg5HX.png"

As well as dg-publish, I also added dg-metatags which help with SEO and populate links to the relevant page with a short description. In this case, the {{{description}}} Mustache tag tells Obsidian to use the description of the synced article from Omnivore.

My full frontmatter template is below:

id: {{{id}}}
title: >
  {{{title}}}
{{#author}}
author: >
  {{{author}}}
{{/author}}
{{#labels.length}}
tags:
{{#labels}} - {{{name}}}
{{/labels}}
{{/labels.length}}
date_saved: {{{dateSaved}}}
{{#datePublished}}
date_published: {{{datePublished}}}
{{/datePublished}}
site_name: {{siteName}}
original_url: {{{omnivoreUrl}}}
dg-publish: true
dg-metatags:
 description: "{{{description}}}"
 "og:image": "https://i.imgur.com/LmCg5HX.png"