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Dropdown Vars for Obsidian

Adds dropdown menus in reading and live preview modes, with synchronization to frontmatter or inline Dataview fields.

Chinese summary

在阅读和实时预览模式下添加下拉菜单,并同步到前置元数据或内联Dataview字段。

Key Use Cases

  • Quickly assign values to frontmatter fields via dropdowns
  • Use in Dataview queries for structured data entry

Pros

  • Easy to use
  • Automatic sync with frontmatter and inline Dataview
  • Works in both reading and live preview

Limitations

  • Limited customization options
  • Depends on Dataview plugin for inline sync

Tags

dropdownfrontmatterdataviewlive-previewsync

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