Automatically add properties from a formatted md file

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What I’m trying to do

Hi, I have a system where I OCR my physical notes and generate a .md file. I add the YAML header to the file with the properties I want (specifically, tags).

However, when adding the file to the obsidian vault, the properties are ignored.

Am I missing something simple? Is it possible to do what I wanna do - have obsidian automatically read the properties from an externally created md file?

Thanks.

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You don’t need to create properties inside Obsidian for them to work.
Properties are just YAML keys and values.

Valid YAML in Obsidian:

---
tags:
  - sometag1
---
  • You need to use tags in the plural as opposed to tag.
  • That’s two spaces before the hyphen.
  • You need zero lines above the first --- of course. Any other markdown content will come after the YAML block.

The following syntax is still supported (but the above method with list item array is recommended):

---
tags: sometag1 sometag2
---

---
tags: [sometag1, sometag2]
---
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Thanks Yurcee. That’s exactly what I did, but probably something was amiss (maybe I formatted the YAML wrong) cause they wouldn’t show up. They do now! Thanks again!

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