Property Condition

Checks the value of a frontmatter property in the file.

You specify the property name (e.g. status) and the operator is applied to its value.

Example: Property status contains draft — matches files where status: draft (or status: draft review)

The property condition reads frontmatter from Obsidian's metadata cache. If the file has no frontmatter or the property is absent, the condition evaluates to false (except for the exists operator).

Available Operators

All condition types share the same set of string operators:

Operator	Description
exists	True if the value is present (non-empty). No extra input needed.
contains	True if the value includes the given string
starts with	True if the value begins with the given string
ends with	True if the value ends with the given string
matches regex	True if the value matches the given regular expression

Operators are case-sensitive. For case-insensitive matching, use the matches regex operator with the (?i) flag.