What is the difference between an Obsidian metadata tag : vs tag ::?

Do note that by using tags:: #some, #tags you’re messing with what’s accessible from dataview somewhat, since you’re defining an inline field which doesn’t hold all the actual tags associated with the file.

Try adding the following to a file:

---
Tags: f60610, frontmatter
---
#nested/body/tag 

tags:: #tags

this.file.tags:  `= this.file.tags `
this.file.etags: `= this.file.etags `
this.tags: `= this.tags`

Which in my case displays as:

So I’d say that you’re kind of playing with fire, when doing a tags:: * in your notes.

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