feat: Make any property of frontmatter a display name (#329)

src/cache-manager.ts

@@ -221,10 +221,11 @@ export class CacheManager {
         }
       }
     }
-
+    const displayTitle = metadata?.frontmatter?.[this.plugin.settings.displayTitle] ?? ''
     const tags = getTagsFromMetadata(metadata)
     return {
       basename: file.basename,
+      displayTitle,
       content,
       /** Content without diacritics and markdown chars */
       cleanedContent: stripMarkdownCharacters(removeDiacritics(content)),

src/components/ResultItemVault.svelte

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
   $: cleanedContent = plugin.textProcessor.makeExcerpt(note.content, note.matches[0]?.offset ?? -1)
   $: glyph = false //cacheManager.getLiveDocument(note.path)?.doesNotExist
   $: {
-    title = note.basename
+    title = note.displayTitle || note.basename
     notePath = pathWithoutFilename(note.path)
 
     // Icons

src/globals.ts

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ export type DocumentRef = { path: string; mtime: number }
 export type IndexedDocument = {
   path: string
   basename: string
+  displayTitle: string
   mtime: number
 
   content: string
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ export type ResultNote = {
   score: number
   path: string
   basename: string
+  displayTitle: string
   content: string
   foundWords: string[]
   matches: SearchMatch[]

src/notes-indexer.ts

@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ export class NotesIndexer {
     return {
       path: filename,
       basename: name,
+      displayTitle: '',
       mtime: 0,
 
       content: '',

src/search/search-engine.ts

@@ -154,8 +154,9 @@ export class SearchEngine {
         term.length <= 3 ? 0 : term.length <= 5 ? fuzziness / 2 : fuzziness,
       boost: {
         basename: settings.weightBasename,
-        directory: settings.weightDirectory,
         aliases: settings.weightBasename,
+        displayTitle: settings.weightBasename,
+        directory: settings.weightDirectory,
         headings1: settings.weightH1,
         headings2: settings.weightH2,
         headings3: settings.weightH3,

src/settings.ts

@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ export interface OmnisearchSettings extends WeightingSettings {
 
   /** Extensions of plain text files to index, in addition to .md */
   indexedFileTypes: string[]
+  /** Custom title field */
+  displayTitle: string
   /** Enable PDF indexing */
   PDFIndexing: boolean
   /** Enable Images indexing */
@@ -209,6 +211,21 @@ export class SettingsTab extends PluginSettingTab {
           })
       })
 
+    // Custom display title
+    new Setting(containerEl)
+      .setName('Set frontmatter property key as title')
+      .setDesc(
+        htmlDescription(`If you have a custom property in your notes that you want to use as the title in search results.<br>
+          Leave empty to disable.`)
+      )
+      .addText(component => {
+        component.setValue(settings.displayTitle).onChange(async v => {
+          await clearCacheDebounced()
+          settings.displayTitle = v
+          await saveSettings(this.plugin)
+        })
+      })
+
     // Additional text files to index
     new Setting(containerEl)
       .setName('Additional TEXT files to index')
@@ -737,6 +754,7 @@ export function getDefaultSettings(app: App): OmnisearchSettings {
     ignoreDiacritics: true,
     ignoreArabicDiacritics: false,
     indexedFileTypes: [] as string[],
+    displayTitle: '',
     PDFIndexing: false,
     officeIndexing: false,
     imagesIndexing: false,