What I’m trying to do
I’m trying to understand the behavior of the TagFolder plugin. I’m adding tags to files, but I’m not seeing the folder show up after I do.
I see that the tags have been inserted in the files in the front matter, and it looks like TagFolder is pulling the tags just fine from other files in the front matter.
There’s a setting in the plugin called “Tag scanning delay” which needs to be 250 or greater. However, I don’t know the units (250 what?)
Things I have tried
I’ve tried restarting Obsidian, as well as waiting. I still don’t see the new tag though.
Thanks for any assistance.
Some more details and insights I’ve found.
I added the tags to the files with another plugin called Multi Properties.
After I add the tags with that plugin, they don’t show up in the front matter of the document when I’m in Editing mode. However, I do see the tag added when I’m in Source mode.
The format of what was added looked like this:
---
tags: ct-journal
---
When I changed it to this:
---
tags:
- ct-journal
---
everything magically works again, and TagFolder picks up the tag just fine, and quickly.
So I think this may not be TagFolder at all, but instead in the way I’m using the Multi Properties plugin.
Are you using an early access (beta) version of Obsidian? It’s currently at v1.9.2 and this applies:
We have officially removed support for the properties tag, alias, cssclass in favor of tags, aliases and cssclasses. In addition, the values of these properties must be a list. If the current value is a text property, it will no longer be recognized by Obsidian.
https://obsidian.md/changelog/2025-05-21-desktop-v1.9.0/
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Yes! I think that’s exactly what’s happening.
This:
---
tags: [ct-journal]
---
should also work at the moment, but things are in flux. Let’s see how it shakes out.