Tag Enhancements

Paste hidden camera, viral video, #Prank into Obsidian’s tags property and you get one giant broken tag. Fixing it by hand means splitting, lowercasing, and hyphenating every single one. Tag Enhancements catches the paste, splits it the right way, cleans each tag up, and writes proper tags to the note.

Features

• Convert on paste Paste a comma-, newline-, semicolon-, or hashtag-separated list into a note’s tags property and it becomes clean tags automatically. soundproof shower, #Prank #Viral turns into soundproof-shower, prank, viral.
• Smart splitting Commas, newlines, and semicolons separate tags and keep the spaces inside a tag (so “hidden camera” stays one tag). Hashtag lists split on spaces. Mixed input works too.
• Cleanup rules Drops the #, strips punctuation and emoji, removes duplicates (case-insensitive), keeps nested tags like project/alpha, and skips anything that can’t be a valid tag (like numbers only), telling you what it skipped.
• Your style for spaces Hyphen (hidden-camera), underscore (hidden_camera), join (hiddencamera), or camelCase (hiddenCamera). Lowercasing is on by default and can be turned off.
• Merge or replace Pasted tags merge with the note’s existing tags by default, or flip on Replace existing tags.
• Works in Bases too Paste into a tags cell in a Bases table or card and it writes to that row’s note, not whatever note happens to be open. A fallback setting converts in any multi-select field if a view isn’t recognized.
• Auto-tidy Tidy tags whenever they change cleans up a pasted list however it lands (Bases cell, card, hand-edited YAML). Plus a Tidy tags on this note command.
• Add tags from clipboard A command you can bind to a hotkey, and a right-click option on any note in the file explorer, so you can tag a note without opening it.
• Add tags from text… A box with a live preview of the parsed tags. Ctrl+Enter to add.
• Tag colors Right-click any tag (in a note, the Properties panel, a Bases cell, or the tag pane) and pick one of four preset colors or a custom one. The color shows up everywhere that tag appears. Manage, reset, or clear colors in settings, and choose whether colors also apply to tags in your note text.
• Graph colors Sends your tag colors to the graph view as colour groups, without touching groups you made yourself. (Best effort, since the graph has no official API for this.)
• Custom tag fields Choose which property names count as tag fields (tags, tag by default).
• Diagnostics “Diagnose the last paste target” and “Diagnose tag colouring” copy a short report to your clipboard if something isn’t being picked up.

Install

1. Download and unzip tag-enhancements-1.0.0.zip.
2. Move the tag-enhancements folder into <your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/ (.obsidian is a hidden folder, so turn on hidden files if you don’t see it). You should end up with <your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/tag-enhancements/main.js.
3. Restart Obsidian.
4. Go to Settings > Community plugins, turn off Restricted mode if it’s on, and enable Tag Enhancements.

License

Personal license for one person, in any of your own vaults, including paid work you do yourself. Every Tag Enhancements 1.x update is included. Read the plugin license.

Buying for a team? A Team license covers up to 5 people at one organization (employees or contractors), and you can reassign seats when someone leaves. Team license: $44.99. Request it by email: support@schimkestudios.com. More than 5 people? Email us for a quote.

Downloads: no download limit, and no expiry while the product is on sale. If a plugin is ever discontinued, your download stays available in your account for at least 12 months after we announce it.