Question: Requesting repo status update ???

[marblewraith]

What is going on?

For example, there has been numerous requests made to decouple this plugin from using #tags in Obsidian.

• Feature Request #17
• [FR] rules based on frontmatter fields #25
• Feature request: Add YAML field support #43

My speculation why: if there's a lot of folders, then you'd have to use a lot of tags. That's a problem for 2 reasons:

1. Because in the graph there's no way to be selective about which tags are rendered, it's either all or nothing. Meaning to use this plugin in the scenario with a lot of folders, the graph becomes very "noisy" and #tags become less useful for their original purpose.

2. #tags are very finicky to deal with. For example lets say for whatever reason (tidying up / refactor vault) you want to delete a #tag from all notes. There's no easy way to do it. The best you can do is use tag wrangler and rename it to something else. However if you used a custom YAML field there is a way to bulk delete those fields from notes easily via the Linter plugin.

Someone has made a pull request enabling this capability (using custom YAML fields instead of tags) even if only at a rudimentary level:

#53

It's been months since this PR (still not merged), and a full year since this repo was updated last...

What's up?