Specific tags to mark a note as "on the agenda"

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Hey there! Its my first post here! I have looked into documentations and posts here but I could not find the answer to my question. I apologize if it has already been addressed.

I am looking for a way for Agenda to “read” my notes and as soon as it finds a specific tag, mark that note as “on the agenda”. To elaborate, I use #processed and #unprocessed for notes that I have/haven’t moved to my obsidian yet. I want my #unprocessed notes to be on my agenda until i manually unmark them.

Thanks in advnace!

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There is no way to do this directly with a custom tag, but having \on-the-agenda will do what you want.

I guess someone could come up with a shortcut to add \on-the-agenda whenever a particular tag is located.

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Or you could just manually click the button to put a note on or off the Agenda?! And not have to bother with a tag?

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Indeed, so to summarize the options are:

  • command-click/tap the orange dot in front of the title (holding the command key will bypass the menu)

  • use the command-shift-U keyboard shortcut

  • type the \on-the-agenda or the shorter variant \ota anywhere in the note text

  • drag a note on top of On the Agenda in the sidebar

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Thanks Drew, by shortcut, are you referring to a apple shortcut workflow? I apologize, I am very new to Agenda :grinning:

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Thank you Alex, the cmd + click is helpful as well as the \ota variant!

Something to think about for future features: having actions within tags. I know tags are “actions” per se but for instance being able to assign specific #tags (or @person) associated with specific time/date/link/attachment would be interesting. for instance a specific tag like #tomorrow could do all of these at the same time:

\ota
\unpin
\assign-date(tomorrow)
\person(MichaelScott)
and maybe \move(unfinished projects)

basically a quick #tomorrow tag could get a note out of the way quickly, unless, there is already a way to do this.

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You can more or less do this in Apple‘s built in text replacement option under keyboard settings.

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Yes, you could use Apple’s substitutions, or an app like TextExpander.