Why are the tags in your template without hashtags?

[iwcvanderlinden]

Hi Bryan - thank you for all the great content you've made available!

I downloaded your templates and are implementing a workflow using your suggestions on tags and links.

I noticed that the emoji tags setup for your templates do not actually include a hashtag. Is this deliberate? It actually seems to result in a nice search experience because it does not clutter the view by highlighting the tag you selected.

However I cannot reproduce these tags - which is a problem if I want to add more ofc. I have tried several things:

• Tagging with #emoji results in different behaviour than your tags (in search and graph)
• Tagging without # does not result in a searchable tag (which makes sense, but then why are those from your template searchable?)

The image might clarify further.

[tallguyjenks]

the emoji's in the yaml headers do not work with the octothorpes #

if you were to use a tag like #✅️

if you place it in the body of the note it will look like this:

Normal Note text #✅️

if you were to place the tag in the yaml header it has to be without the octothorpe like this:

---
tags: ✅️
---

If the issue is that when you type # you're not getting an auto-complete of any of the emoji's to fill in where you want to place them, what you can do is place all of the tags/emojis in a single note that way Obsidian can "see" them and will autocomplete in the future. I personally just use alfred on mac to play my emoji's, Linux you could use Dmenu, windows you can insert emoji's with Win+.

[iwcvanderlinden]

the emoji's in the yaml headers do not work with the octothorpes #

Thanks a lot, that's what I needed to know! And once again, I'd like to mention how incredibly useful your tips and resources are.

[tallguyjenks]

You're welcome and my pleasure :)