Create new tag from the 'tag' properties field

[janpeeters]

Use case or problem

When using the new properties feature, I tried a few times to type a non-existing tag to create it (like you would when you enter is as text in the body of your note). This didn’t seem possible.

Use case: Provide for easy new tag creation

Proposed solution

If Obsidian doesn’t find a tag when typing a text string in the tag properties’ field, it creates that text string as a tag.

[WhiteNoise]

I don’t understand this.

[anon63144152]

@janpeeters

I tried a few times to type a non-existing tag to create it (like you would when you enter is as text in the body of your note)

In a note, a user would write #tag (with an opening octothorp). If you mean that, that’s not the right format for a tag in a YAML header. No octothorp:

---
tags: tag
---

Apologies if I have misunderstood.

[Pch]

Also, in case you used the appropriate YAML format for tags in Properties, as mentioned by @anon63144152, don’t forget to hit Enter to effectively create the new tag …

(Forgetting to hit Enter when creating a brand new tag in Properties happened to me quite some times )

[janpeeters]

Sorry @WhiteNoise @anon63144152 And @Pch I didn’t get a notification of your replies. I understand now how it works.

I expected that if I typed a string in the tag field that doesn’t match a tag exactly, that pressing ‘enter’ would then create that string as a new tag.
But if there are tags that somehow (fuzzy) match, it chooses the first ‘matching’ tag instead of creating a new one.
I discovered just now that, to accept the string as a new tag, I have to hold ‘shift’ when pressing enter.
This feels a bit odd to me, but I can imagine that most users prefer fuzzy matched tags to be selected instead of having to tap the arrow down key to select a tag.

Maybe this clarifies what I mean:

‘ict’ matches no tag literally, so it selects the fuzzy matched tag.
I have to hold shift to create the ‘ict’ tag.