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

**URL:** <https://forum.obsidian.md/t/properties-recognize-tags-in-text-property-when-formatted-as-tags/63812>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Tags:** properties, valuable\
**Created:** [July 26, 2023, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/properties-recognize-tags-in-text-property-when-formatted-as-tags/63812 "2023-07-26T22:03:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![argentum](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/argentum/32/7733_2.png) [@argentum](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/argentum)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 9:37am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/properties-recognize-tags-in-text-property-when-formatted-as-tags/63812/8 "2023-07-28T09:37:28Z")

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> [@blue\_emperor](#):
>
> I see that you want to use tags and nested tags, like
> 
> ```auto
> project/status/in-progress
> 
> ```
> 
> Then for some reason you also want to add custom metadata that encodes
> 
> `status: in-progress`

That is the point, I don’t want to do that. I want to only have `status: "#in-progress"` which is not recognized by the property editor at the moment, as the `status` key can’t have tags.  
I don’t use dataview, so tags are really useful for searching in my case.

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