Added preferences to support toggling front matter title extraction on/off and to customize what field is used for the title.

browser/main/Detail/MarkdownNoteDetail.js

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ class MarkdownNoteDetail extends React.Component {
   handleUpdateContent () {
     const { note } = this.state
     note.content = this.refs.content.value
-    note.title = markdown.strip(striptags(findNoteTitle(note.content)))
+    note.title = markdown.strip(striptags(findNoteTitle(note.content, this.props.config.editor.enableFrontMatterTitle, this.props.config.editor.frontMatterTitleField)))
     this.updateNote(note)
   }
 

browser/main/Detail/SnippetNoteDetail.js

@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ class SnippetNoteDetail extends React.Component {
     if (this.refs.tags) note.tags = this.refs.tags.value
     note.description = this.refs.description.value
     note.updatedAt = new Date()
-    note.title = findNoteTitle(note.description)
+    note.title = findNoteTitle(note.description, false)
 
     this.setState({
       note

browser/main/lib/ConfigManager.js

@@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ export const DEFAULT_CONFIG = {
     scrollPastEnd: false,
     type: 'SPLIT',
     fetchUrlTitle: true,
-    enableTableEditor: false
+    enableTableEditor: false,
+    enableFrontMatterTitle: true,
+    frontMatterTitleField: 'title'
   },
   preview: {
     fontSize: '14',

browser/main/modals/PreferencesModal/UiTab.js

@@ -89,7 +89,9 @@ class UiTab extends React.Component {
         snippetDefaultLanguage: this.refs.editorSnippetDefaultLanguage.value,
         scrollPastEnd: this.refs.scrollPastEnd.checked,
         fetchUrlTitle: this.refs.editorFetchUrlTitle.checked,
-        enableTableEditor: this.refs.enableTableEditor.checked
+        enableTableEditor: this.refs.enableTableEditor.checked,
+        enableFrontMatterTitle: this.refs.enableFrontMatterTitle.checked,
+        frontMatterTitleField: this.refs.frontMatterTitleField.value
       },
       preview: {
         fontSize: this.refs.previewFontSize.value,
@@ -428,6 +430,31 @@ class UiTab extends React.Component {
             </div>
           </div>
 
+          <div styleName='group-section'>
+            <div styleName='group-section-label'>
+              {i18n.__('Front matter title field')}
+            </div>
+            <div styleName='group-section-control'>
+              <input styleName='group-section-control-input'
+                ref='frontMatterTitleField'
+                value={config.editor.frontMatterTitleField}
+                onChange={(e) => this.handleUIChange(e)}
+                type='text'
+              />
+            </div>
+          </div>
+
+          <div styleName='group-checkBoxSection'>
+            <label>
+              <input onChange={(e) => this.handleUIChange(e)}
+                checked={this.state.config.editor.enableFrontMatterTitle}
+                ref='enableFrontMatterTitle'
+                type='checkbox'
+              />&nbsp;
+              {i18n.__('Extract title from front matter')}
+            </label>
+          </div>
+
           <div styleName='group-checkBoxSection'>
             <label>
               <input onChange={(e) => this.handleUIChange(e)}