How tag PDF? Do I create a note for each and put the tags in there?

Do I use a note to add tags to a pdf?

I don’t appear to be able to tag a pdf from inside Obsidian so my guess is that I create a note for each file and add the tags to that note. Or is there a better way?

Tell me like I’m at least as old as your grandmother.

I coded in Pascal 30 years ago and learned a small amount of HTML. That’s really it. I can’t even figure out how to use this data-entry form properly … Y’all, my first real programming job was to remove the ability to run the software off two floppy disks and I retired from that life 25 years ago.

I know what I want but I don’t know how to get there. I am researching particular aspects of the Epstein files. Because of risk of deletions, in general I am downloading the source material, but I’ll do web links whenever reasonable. This means I have many files that I want to tag and then associate with people / places / events. I guess that would be a note, which I could then import into canvas. I’ve no idea. We didn’t have personal computers when I was in school so I simply do not come ready-made with the right prerequisite knowledge.

In my mind’s eye, I see each person / place / event as a descriptive node that uses “attached” (associated?) documentation which links that topic to other topics. When I add a new file and tag it, I want that file to automatically “glom onto” the proper topics, so that when I view, say, a person, I may find out that the new doc just put that person two steps from something I hadn’t realized they might be associated with – and I don’t have to do it by manually adding that document to all relevant nodes.

I’m sure it can be done, but I’d love to know the easy / correct way before I put a lot of time into doing it the hard way.

Thanks

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I don’t appear to be able to tag a pdf from inside Obsidian so my guess is that I create a note for each file and add the tags to that note.

That’s correct! The Media Companion community plugin can help smooth the process.

(I edited your post to remove the code formatting for you, and removed the comment with the correctly formatted text since it wasn’t needed anymore.)

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