- [[title::The Picture of Dorian Gray]] is a [[type::book]]
written by [[author::Oscar Wilde]].
as a more compact way to write this block:
- type:: book
title:: The Picture of Dorian Gray
author:: Oscar Wilde
[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]] is a [[book]]
written by [[Oscar Wilde]].
Rendered, with links, as:
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a book written by Oscar Wilde.
So it’s rendered just like:
- [[The Picture of Dorian Gray]] is a [[book]]
written by [[Oscar Wilde]].
But it also has these properties:
- type:: book
title:: The Picture of Dorian Gray
author:: Oscar Wilde
So with a sentence we could add an entry to our personal database:
Title
Author
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Imagine if in the future we will have a (Machine Learning?) tool that infer from the sentence which properties could be assigned to certain words and suggest to add the systax above: we could have a personal database automatically populated from sentences in our notes!
I like this idea, with the assumption that it would still be possible to add properties without the need to make it a link. In my example the [[type:: book]] would not be a link as I do not wan’t a page book in my vault.
With that in mind I would suggest a different syntax like {{type:: book}} for a property without the link and {{type::[[book]]}} for a property with the value (book) as a link.
The rendering should be the same as you suggest while taking into account to show the link or to not show a link.
Adding to that I would like to drop the page-property and property difference. No need for that both link to a block with the first linking to the first block on a page. No need to treat that differently I think.