Things I have tried I have looked at the Templater and Dataview community plugins but not been able to do what I want. What I’m trying to do Aim To retrieve a list of tags from specified files, e.g. in a folder, and insert them in files created from a template. Ideally this would be something that…

Scenario Folder: Folder_A Files in Folder_A: readme/about file in Folder_A: readme_A You can insert this query in your “readme_A” file: ```dataview TABLE file.tags as tags FROM "Folder_A" WHERE file.name != this.file.name This gives you a table/list of all the files in Folder_A, excluding the “…

Hi @mnvwvnm , thank you for your reply. It’s been rather hectic so I have only just come back to this. Thank you, your code gives me a table of all the files, except the current one, and all the tags in each file. I have tested it and it works with inline tags and with tags in the yaml, e.g. tags: …

typing “tag:” on the search bar on the left panel gives you a list of all your tags

Hi @Walrux , thanks for the reply. I am looking to get a list of tags automatically in a note, e.g. using dataview. This is a useful tip though.

Hi, I’m also interested in finding a solution for this. Having a page of showing all tags part of major tag A. Quite often I’m using Obsidian on mobile and I would rather see the tags on a page, than to switch to the tag search option.

If you want a list of tags used on that note, you can use `=this.file.tags` For a general list/table of tags, separated from file name, without duplicates, I don’t know how to do that with dataview.

If you want a list of all your tags on a note then the following command would do ```dataview table file.tags ``` But if you want a list of, say, the notes containing #tag1, #tag2, #tag3 then you will have to use the following commands ```dataview table file.tags from #tag1 or #tag2 or #tag3 …

The code snippet below will get all tags without duplicates and filenames in a certain folder. Notice that you should replace <path> with the path to the folder instead of the folder name only. :slight_smile: ```dataviewjs let tags = [] for (let tag of dv.pages('<path>').file.tags) { if (tags.inde…

ha this is epic and exactly what i was searching for! in a related query, whats the best way to export these results to a text file and get rid of the # (hash) sign? is there a programatic way to do this with the dataview js script? i need to update this tag list often for other apps :smiley: thx…

[image] mnvwvnm: If you want a list of tags used on that note, you can use `=this.file.tags` How can I use dataview to list all files that share at least one tag with the current (active) file? I’ve played around with this.file.tags but without any meaningful result so far… Edit: Found the …

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