Hey I have been using Obsidian for a few months now and I have a couple templates for different purposes.

So far I have used formats similar to: https://betterhumans.pub/how-to-boost-your-productivity-for-scientific-research-using-obsidian-fe85c98c63c8

One thing I do is entering metadata at the top of the note with key:: value pairs.

It is not a YAML header but the double :: seems to do the same things?For example I can use them as columns in a dataview table

For example my book template:

### [[Books MOC]]

**Author**:: [[]]
**Started**::
**Finished**::
**Tags**:: #literature/books
**Grade**:: 
**Related**::

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# {{title}}

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References:

Created: {{date}} {{time}}

However I see so many people use and recommend YAML headers that I am not sure if I am missing out on good features.

Would it be worth it to change my templates and possibly all created notes to a YAML header insteaf of key::value?

Does anyone know of differences between both formats?