Example for using alias and tag in frontmatter

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I player around with them, but either I do not understand how it should work, oder it doesn’t work in my workspace.

Can someone provide some examples on frontmatter and tags, alias?

Thansk

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This format works for me. Just be sure to place the front matter at the very first line.

---
aliases: [note title, alternative title]
tags: ["#tag", "#anothertag"]
---

Note content

Please let me know if this works for you.

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No, does not work.
The tags do not show up in my tag list (“Kategoriebereich”),
in other cards in link creation “note title” is not suggested as a link titlte
and when simply typing >note title< in card B, the card with front matter does not show unlinked cards (“Nicht-verlinkte Erwähnungen”).

Do I need to configure something?

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Weird.

  1. Are you using the latest version of Obsidian?
  2. Are you sure the front matter is delimited by --- (three dashes)? I’m asking this because there may be some text expanding going on, and replacing dashes with m-dashes or something.

If both answers are “Yes”, I think you should file a bug report.

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Yes (0.9.15, installer Version 0.9.2),
Yes, i copied the example to avoid using different dash characters than necessary.

How cam I file a bug report?

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That’s not the most recent version. 0.9.17 was out 9 days ago.

Since your installer is many releases old, maybe you should just re-download it from the link at obsidian.md’s homepage.

If that doesn’t help either, you can file a bug report in this section of the forum.

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Well, my installation told me, it was the most current version.
Corrected, restarted it: now it works perfectly.

Solved + Thanks!

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