Metadata Browser

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Browser for Exploring Current-Note Metadata

Seeing the keys and values of metadata in a given Note would be helpful in both learning/understanding Dataview and diagnostic tasks. The browser would effectively show keys and values in a pretty format for users to explore. I envision this becoming a dynamic sidebar pane that shows the currently active Note's metadata.

Origin/Reference: ZotLit Item Details

In the plugin ZotLit, one can peruse the data structure for a Zotero item while customizing the import templates. This is extraordinarily helpful for designing one's template around the item data structure, ensuring particular methods work against the actual data types of different keys/values.

Here's a picture of what it looks like in the plugin:

You can see that the primitive-value keys for the item are nicely displayed, including quotes around strings for example, and lists/maps can be expanded.

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For now, $=dv.list(dv.array(dv.current())) provides a primitive solution, although it is challenging to navigate and doesn't show the raw data within a key (e.g. does this string-based value have any padded spaces?). This feature would be a quick and easy way to nicely navigate metadata without the side-effects of adding a JS script like this to a Note to see this data, possibly incurring nasty side-effects