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tmd object show

Displays an object’s full information: properties (including relations and backlinks) and body.

Supports prefix matching — you can omit the ULID suffix if the prefix uniquely identifies an object. If multiple objects match in an interactive terminal, a picker is shown to select the intended object. In non-interactive mode (piped input), the command returns an error listing the matching IDs.

Terminal window
tmd object show book/golang-in-action

Example output:

book/golang-in-action


Properties
──────────
  title: Go in Action
  status: reading
  rating: 4.5
  author: → person/alan-donovan-01jqr3k5mpbvn8e0f2g7h9txyz
  backlinks: ⟵ note/reading-list-01jqr4a2bcdef0123456789xyz


Local Properties
────────────────
  mood: reflective


Body
────
  # Notes
  A great book about Go...

Properties are displayed in schema-defined order. Relation properties use → for forward and ← for inverse links. Wiki-link backlinks use ⟵ to indicate incoming references from other objects.

If the object contains frontmatter properties not defined in the type schema (“local properties”), they are displayed in a separate Local Properties section. This section only appears when local properties exist.