You're right with those points. There is a markdown import command that can import your notes so you don't have to manually do so, although I'm not sure that it will read the ISO formatted dates so it might replace the dates. https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/f23a6290-2dec-45dc-b616-c218ee53db6b/ Also to clarify, the frontmatter is generated automatically and there's an option to always fold it in your editor, so you could ignore the frontmatter if you prefer.