Properties: Recognize tags in text property when formatted as "#tags"

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I’d love to add in that there are many use cases in which it would be useful for #hashtags to be recognized in other properties. For instance:

  • What if I want to categories my tags into groupings, e.g. “subjects: #philosophy, #science”, and then relevant-authors: #Kant, #Hume

  • I’d love to have some properties be filled out with hashtag values, like “status: #status/incomplete”. This allows me to use the same tags that I might use inside the note to tag a paragraph as incomplete.

  • There are some tags that are in orthogonal spaces to the typical tags. Again for these, it would be good to group them into their own properties. For instance, I store “mental models” as tags. For each note I have a list of mental models used in the YAML code: Mental-Models-Used: #MentalModels/Munger/Scaling #MentalModels/Physics/GravityWells

Previously I used YAML Anchoring (a pretty advanced feature) to feed everything into the Tags field, but anchoring is not officially supported in 1.4.

To work around, I must:

  1. Always add a space when entering tags via the Property UI as it will not allow a # to begin a text value.
  2. If searching for a tag, I use the following method: #tagname OR tag:#tagname
  3. If wanting to autocomplete the tag name for other properties, I must enter it via modifying the file source.
  4. And lastly, I must give up on the tags used in properties in being displayed on connectivity graphs or tag lists.

I add this to the discussion because the original request for the feature was in a very specific use case, but I’d like to highlight that the request is far more reaching. Thanks!

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