Adding tags with "#" to metadata, so you can add them with proposals instead of without

[CawlinTeffid]

It sounds like you are editing your properties in Source Mode? If so, to use # in the tags property, you need to quote the tag:

---
tags:
  - "#example"
---

In Live Preview, the properties editor does this automatically if you type a # with your tag. (The properties editor is the default interface to properties in Live Preview. If you don’t see it, there is a setting to make it appear.)

If you want Obsidian to recognize tags in property fields other than tags, comment on this feature request:

Properties: Recognize tags in text property when formatted as "#tags"

Use case or problem My frontmatter and note content currently has a lot of duplicated info depending on whether I want to use certain functionality that wasn’t available in the frontmatter before, i.e. links and clickable tags. The new properties pane recognizes links if they are formatted as wikilinks and in quotes in a text property: “[[link]]”. Tags are only currently recognized inside the tags key. Proposed solution Recognize text properties as tags when formatted as such, similar to how …