5.4 The Basic Set of Fields  ↑

5.4.1 Title

The word title can be used as both a label and a type.

A Collection must have one and only one field of type title, and it should be the first field within a Collection.

A Title consists of a few words telling you what the Note is about.

Each Note in a Collection must have a unique Title (unless you’ve changed the Note ID Configuration from the default); however Notenik will automatically append a number, or increment one if already present, in order to allow a Note to be added that would otherwise be a duplicate.

When editing, the title field will appear as a single line of editable text.

When displayed, the title field will often be displayed in a bold and/or larger font, and often without being accompanied by its label.

When used as a sort field, title values will be sorted by their lowest-common-denominator representation (ignoring case, spacing and punctuation).

The title field (or other Note Identifiers) serves as a Note’s unique identifier within its Collection, in three different ways:

1. In its original form, as entered by the user, when presented to the user;

2. In its lowest common denominator form (as described above), when used internally by Notenik;

3. In a lightly transformed form, when creating a file name for the note, to be used on disk.

When a title is used within an HTML document or fragment, Notenik will apply Markdown parsing to the field. This is primarily useful in applying styling within a Title field.

Also see the Long Title field, for cases in which longer titles are desired at the top of Streamline Reading displays.