u/giacomodangelo

If you use Maps of Content or hub notes, you could know the problem: every time you link a new note to your MOC, you also want to tag it — a moc or category property in the frontmatter, so you can filter or query it later. Doing this by hand for every note, every time, is the tedious part of the system.

I made a plugin that solves just this, and nothing else. Open your MOC note, run one command, and every note linking to it gets tagged automatically with that property.

It never overwrites anything: if a note already has a different value, it turns it into a list instead of erasing it. If it's already tagged correctly, it skips it. You can run it as many times as you want without worrying about duplicates.

I kept it deliberately small — one command, one setting (the property name), zero hidden background automation. Less surface area for bugs, less to understand to use it, less that can break with future Obsidian updates.

Plugin: Property from backlink - Obsidian Plugin (not manually reviewed yet)

Repo: jackydangelo/obsidian-property-from-backlink: Add a frontmatter property to all notes linking to the current note.

Feedback welcome, especially if you hit an edge case with aliases, unusual frontmatter, or large vaults. Be patient, this is my first work here :)