Two Obsidian Plugins You’ll Wonder How you Lived Without

Denise Todd
5 min readAug 8, 2022

Obsidian Beginner’s Series: Tag Pane and Tag Wrangler Plugins

Ever want to see a list of your tags? Rename a tag? Convert a tag to a page? Obsidian Tag Pane and the plugin Tag Wrangler let you do just that.

Obsidian tags give you a way to organize, categorize, and visualize your notes. You can use tags with or without a Core Plugin called Tag Pane, and with or without a Community Plugin called Tag Wrangler. But I highly recommend both.

More plugins? 🤬 Arrggh…

I know. I know. Another plugin.

But I promise you’ll love these plugins. You’ll wonder how you lived without them.

Tag Pane

Tag pane is a Core Plugin maintained by the Obsidian Development team. So, if you trust Obsidian, you trust core plugins.

The plugin must be enabled to use.

  • Go to SETTINGS ⚙️ > Core Plugins > Tag Pane and flip it on (red is on in the image below):

But why should I turn it on? What does it give me? 🙄

Let me ask you this: Have you ever wanted to see a simple list of all your tags? Maybe to check for misspellings, duplicates, or an alias you…

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Denise Todd

Author/Speaker writing about supporting other writers, critical thinking, knowledge management, story structure, and other things that matter.