Hi everyone,
I’m a brand new Obsidian user (migrating from Notion) and I’m absolutely blown away by the power of local-first and linking! I’ve decided to dive in by creating a fun personal project: a detailed strategy guide for the game Among Us.
My goal is to create a vault of notes detailing every tactic, especially for the among us always imposter role, which requires a lot of structured thinking.
Here’s where I’m stuck on something that feels really simple. I’m trying to use the Templates core plugin to create new strategy notes.
What I’m trying to do
I created a template file at Templates/New Strategy.md. The content of the template is:
---
creation_date: {{date}}
tags: strategy, imposter, among-us
---
# Tactic: {{title}}
## Description:
## When to use:
## Risks:
My expectation is that when I create a new note from this template, it will automatically have the tags #strategy, #imposter, and #among-us applied.
The Problem
The template text inserts perfectly, but the tags in the frontmatter don’t seem to be “active.” They just sit there as text. They don’t show up in the Tags pane and I can’t find them when I search for tag:#imposter. Am I misunderstanding how YAML frontmatter tags work?
Honestly, my inspiration for trying to get this organized is from seeing how clean and easy-to-read some fan guides are. I’m trying to build a vault that has the same clear structure as the guide I’ve been reading here:
modhello(.)com/among-us/
Seeing that layout is what made me think Obsidian would be the perfect tool for the job.
So, my question is: What am I missing to make the tags in my template’s frontmatter actually work as tags in the new note? Is there a setting I need to enable?
Thanks so much for the help! I’m excited to get this working.