Obsidian Front Matter Tag Wizard

Tired of having to type # to get tag autocompletion in your Obsidian note front matter? I feel your pain. This plugin enables tag autocompletion in your front matter...and beautifully formats those same tags to boot!

Features

• Enables unprefixed Tag autocompletion in front matter!
• Fully supports multiline tags!
• Optional auto-formatting for tags (default: enabled)!

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Getting Started

This plugin has been submitted to Obsidian for review, but in the meantime it can be installed for testing via the BRAT plugin.

1. Install BRAT
2. Go to the Obsidian42 - BRAT options tab
3. Click Add Beta plugin and enter the folling URL:

https://github.com/Tohsig/obsidian-front-matter-tag-wizard

4. Open the Community Plugins tab
5. Search for Front Matter Tag Wizard and enable the plugin.

Done! You should immediately get tag autocompletion and autoformatting in the front matter of your notes.

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Auto-formatting

The built in auto-formatting is enabled by default and only affects front matter tags. No need to worry about the rest of your content. It will trigger automatically whenever you select an autocomplete suggestion (via enter or mouseclick), or when your cursor leaves the tags: list in your front matter.

When it runs, the auto-formatter will remove duplicate tags and then standardize tag formatting according to these options:

Option	Description	Default
Enable Auto-formatting	Enable/Disable auto-formatting completely	enabled
Auto-format Mode	Controls whether tags are put on a single line or multiple lines	Single Line
Remove Extra Characters	Removes # and " characters from your front matter tags	enabled

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Roadmap

• Add an option to sort front matter tags alphabetically.
• Allow autoformatter to edit background notes.
• Get some saner YAML parsing in here.
• Add "Format front matter tags" to quick switcher.

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Contributing

Feel free to submit issues for bug reports and additional features! This is a project I spun up to support my daily workflow, so I'll be very interested to hear how it does elsewhre.

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License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

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Acknowledgments

Huge thanks to the incredible Obsidian Dataview and Obsidian Plugin Developer Docs projects. I was able to learn a ton about Obsidian's API from both, and I highly recommend them if you want to develop a plugin.

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