diff --git a/src/DataviewSuggester.ts b/src/DataviewSuggester.ts
index 6ea6eeb..1c3662a 100644
--- a/src/DataviewSuggester.ts
+++ b/src/DataviewSuggester.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import {
     App,
     Editor,
-    Plugin,
     EditorPosition,
     EditorSuggest,
     EditorSuggestContext,
@@ -11,8 +10,11 @@ import {
 import { getTriggerText } from "./trigger";
 import uFuzzy from "@leeoniya/ufuzzy";
 import { getAPI, DataviewApi } from "obsidian-dataview";
+import DataviewAutocompletePlugin from "./main";
 
 export class DataviewSuggester extends EditorSuggest<String> {
+    plugin: DataviewAutocompletePlugin;
+
     maxSuggestions: number;
     searcher: uFuzzy;
 
@@ -22,12 +24,13 @@ export class DataviewSuggester extends EditorSuggest<String> {
     suggestionsRefCount: { [key: string]: number } = {}; // maps suggestions to number of files including them
 
     constructor(
-        plugin: Plugin,
+        plugin: DataviewAutocompletePlugin,
         maxSuggestions: number = 10,
         singleErrorMode: boolean = false,
         allowExtraChars: boolean = false,
     ) {
         super(plugin.app);
+        this.plugin = plugin;
         this.maxSuggestions = maxSuggestions;
         this.searcher = new uFuzzy({
             intraMode: singleErrorMode ? 1 : 0,
@@ -50,15 +53,26 @@ export class DataviewSuggester extends EditorSuggest<String> {
     }
 
     getSuggestions(context: EditorSuggestContext): string[] | Promise<string[]> {
-        let idxs = this.searcher.filter(this.suggestionsList, context.query);
+        // TODO: add filter at index-time?
+        let filtered = this.suggestionsList;
+        for (const filterPattern of this.plugin.settings.ignoredFields) {
+            const regex = new RegExp(`^(${filterPattern})::.*`);
+            const ignoredSuggestions = filtered.filter((suggestion) => regex.test(suggestion));
+            // minimatch.match(filtered, filterPattern + ":: *", { partial: true })
+            for (const ignoredSuggestion of ignoredSuggestions) {
+                filtered = filtered.slice(filtered.indexOf(ignoredSuggestion) + 1);
+            }
+        }
+
+        const idxs = this.searcher.filter(filtered, context.query);
         if (idxs != null && idxs.length > 0) {
-            let info = this.searcher.info(idxs, this.suggestionsList, context.query);
-            let order = this.searcher.sort(info, this.suggestionsList, context.query);
+            let info = this.searcher.info(idxs, filtered, context.query);
+            let order = this.searcher.sort(info, filtered, context.query);
 
             // return top N suggestions with marks
             return order
                 .slice(0, this.maxSuggestions)
-                .map((idx) => [idx, this.suggestionsList[info.idx[idx]]])
+                .map((idx) => [idx, filtered[info.idx[idx]]])
                 .map((suggestion: [number, string]) => uFuzzy.highlight(suggestion[1], info.ranges[suggestion[0]]));
         }
         return [];
diff --git a/src/SettingsTab.ts b/src/SettingsTab.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4440ea6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/SettingsTab.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+import { App, PluginSettingTab, Setting } from "obsidian";
+import DataviewAutocompletePlugin from "./main";
+
+export class SettingsTab extends PluginSettingTab {
+    plugin: DataviewAutocompletePlugin;
+
+    constructor(app: App, plugin: DataviewAutocompletePlugin) {
+        super(app, plugin);
+        this.plugin = plugin;
+    }
+
+    display(): void {
+        let { containerEl } = this;
+        containerEl.empty();
+
+        const excludeDesc = document.createDocumentFragment();
+        const link = document.createElement("a");
+        link.href = "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_expressions";
+        link.text = "Regex patterns";
+        excludeDesc.append(link);
+        excludeDesc.append(" to exclude field names from suggestions. One pattern per line.");
+        new Setting(containerEl)
+            .setName("Exclude fields")
+            .setDesc(excludeDesc)
+            .addTextArea((textArea) => {
+                textArea.inputEl.setAttribute("rows", "5");
+                textArea
+                    .setPlaceholder("created.*\nmodified.*\ndate")
+                    .setValue(this.plugin.settings.ignoredFields.join("\n"))
+                    .onChange(async (value) => {
+                        this.plugin.settings.ignoredFields = value
+                            .split("\n")
+                            .map((val) => val.trim())
+                            .filter((val) => val.length > 0);
+                        await this.plugin.saveSettings();
+                    });
+            });
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main.ts b/src/main.ts
index 1c11ad1..8a541c3 100644
--- a/src/main.ts
+++ b/src/main.ts
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 import { App, Plugin, PluginSettingTab, Setting, TFile } from "obsidian";
 import { DataviewSuggester } from "./DataviewSuggester";
 import { getAPI } from "obsidian-dataview";
+import { SettingsTab } from "./SettingsTab";
 
 interface DataviewAutocompleteSettings {
     ignoredFields: string[];
 }
 
 const DEFAULT_SETTINGS: DataviewAutocompleteSettings = {
-    ignoredFields: [],
+    ignoredFields: ["created.*", "modified.*", "date"],
 };
 
 export default class DataviewAutocompletePlugin extends Plugin {
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ export default class DataviewAutocompletePlugin extends Plugin {
 
     async onload() {
         await this.loadSettings();
+        this.addSettingTab(new SettingsTab(this.app, this));
 
         this.registerEvent(
             // @ts-ignore