How to make "Capture to Tags" look in the front matter ?

[lyndhurst]

Hi,

I saw from the changelog that releases 0.19.1 and 0.19.2 added the ability to look for tags in the front matter for the "Capture To Tag" feature.

I would like to use QuickAdd to insert links to newly created notes into a structure note, often called MOCs in the Obsidian community. I tag my structure notes, with the index keyword in an array field located in the YAML frontmatter under the tags key. I do not prefix my tags with a # sign in this array; and I know that some people use the YAML key keyword instead of tags.

Anyway, when I add #index in the Capture To filename field, an error is thrown stating that no notes tagged index were found. When I add index instead, of course it complains that the file does not exist, or creates it depending on the settings.

I tested adding a #index tag to a couple of notes, and they end up being listed in the suggester which indicates the Capture To Tag functionality works fine.

I also tested adding #index in the frontmatter tags array wondering if the plugin was looking for some kind of regex exact match, but it still did not work, and also messed up the YAML highlighting, teaching me that this is the YAML comment syntax :)

Finally my questions are:

• Is there a specific syntax to respect when adding the tag in the Capture to field for the plugin to look into the front matter ?
• Or, is the plugin looking for another YAML key than tags ?
• Or finally, am I missing something here ?

Thanks for your help.

[chhoumann]

Hi @lyndhurst!

This seems to be a bug. I had underestimated the permutations of YAML frontmatter.
Issue to track this: #459.

It's not you that's missing anything. Just a bug.

[chhoumann]

Just pushed a fix. Should be available in the next update :)

[lyndhurst]

Thanks for clarifying, and taking care of this issue so quickly.

Looking at #459, I see that you added a code block with an example of a YAML array, I used the other syntax so far in my notes:

tags: [ tag1, tag2 ]

Do you think it is going to be an issue on my end to use the Capture To Tags feature ?

[chhoumann]

Should work just fine, based on my tests.

[lyndhurst]

Can't wait for the next update then, thanks again 👍

[chhoumann]

Should already be out. Sure thing!

[lyndhurst]

Working great now, thank you !