Make each tag a markdown file or convertible to it

Since I try to keep my notes atomic in Obsidian, I try to keep them short and link them to each other, but tags are kind of a dead end. For example, if I link a “Cat” file with an “Animal” file, then later on when I go and find out some interesting information about animals, I can write it to the animal file, I can also see other files linked to the animal file with the help of the local graph or plugins (breadcrumbs, dataview etc.). But I can’t do this if I tag the cat file as “Animal”. If I want to open a file called “Animal”, I would have two “independent” concepts, both tag and file.

I personally solved this problem by opening a property called “linktags” which replaces “tags” and links files there just like a tag. It works for now, but if you like my idea, it would be cool to get a native obsidian support. I’m almost sure I’ll have trouble in the future with plugins that will only work with tags (metadata menu etc)


You may want to explore the Tag Wrangler plugin’s “tag pages” feature.

I’ve used it, it’s not exactly what I want, unfortunately

You may have already seen this, but Tag Wrangler’s documentation seems to have a way to use the feature to convert tags to links.

Tag Wrangler does not (yet) support automatic conversion of tag references to page links or vice versa, though it may in a future version. In the meantime, however, you can use Obsidian’s backlinks to find and change such references from the tag page. Specifically, viewing a tag page’s “unlinked mentions” will show you all the locations where the tag was used in the body of a note, and “link” buttons you can use to convert them to page links. (Converting page links to tags requires hand editing.)