Single Choice Property

Single Choice Property

Single Choice Property keeps selected Obsidian list properties to a single latest value. It is useful when you want a property like status or priority to behave like a single-choice field while still using Obsidian's list-style property editor.

Requires Obsidian 1.11.0 or newer.

By default, the plugin watches the status property. When a watched property becomes a list with more than one value, the plugin keeps only the last value and can show a Notice.

Example:

status:
  - Doing
  - Done

becomes:

status:
  - Done

Settings

Use the plugin settings page to add or remove watched property names.

Single value property

Select a list-type property from Obsidian's property list and add it as a single-value property. Press Enter in the input or click Add to add the property.

The property input uses Obsidian's property API to show suggestions and property types. These Obsidian property types are treated as valid list types:

• aliases
• list
• multitext
• tags

If a watched property is missing from Obsidian's property settings, or is configured as a non-list type, the settings page shows a warning and a conversion button. The conversion button changes the property type to multitext; it only affects the property type and does not modify existing notes.

Single value property list

The list shows every configured single-value property. Each property is refreshed precisely in Obsidian's metadata editor after the plugin updates it, so a full page rebuild is not required.

Notify when modifying properties

This setting is enabled by default. When the plugin automatically modifies a property, it shows a notification with the note name, property name, and kept value.

Notes

• The plugin runs locally and does not make network requests.
• The plugin only changes configured watched properties when they are arrays with more than one value.
• The latest value means the last item in the list.