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afroserty
Apr 22, 2010
I'm fairly new to Obsidian and I am hoping someone can clarify for me how exactly the Properties feature is different from the front matter in regard to tags and other properties. Are they identical/different syntax wise when it come to the Dataview plug in?

I am trying to set up some templates but would like to know if there is a different/ better use case for this as they seem to be exclusive? They seem like they are just the same thing with a different look but I noticed when tags are just in a note Dataview does not pick them up but when they are in the Properties section they are returned which seems backwards. With everything else seeming quite well thought this seemed odd to me, unless it could be a plug in error?

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afroserty
Apr 22, 2010

Hughlander posted:

Properties is just a different view into the front matter and you can toggle it on/off.

Are you using 'tag' or 'tags' in the property? In Dataview?

I think what you're seeing is talked about here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/16e58pv/dataview_stopped_fetching_tags_queries_after_the/ and here:
https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview/issues/2064

I rarely frontmatter tag things but usually just tag in text so hadn't noticed an issue.

I was hoping that was the case and thought I was just missing something obvious, thank you for clearing that up for me. Cheers, that makes sense that it is just a quirk or me just not using the right syntax. Overthinking it :dumb:

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