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The ot keyword gives you a two-step tag navigator for your entire vault. First, Alfred presents a searchable list of every tag that appears anywhere in your notes. Select one and Alfred immediately shows every note carrying that tag — ready to open, preview, or act on with the same keyboard modifiers you already know from the main o search.

Keyword

ot <tag-query>
Type ot optionally followed by part of a tag name to filter the tag list. Alfred fuzzy-matches against all tags in the vault as reported by the Metadata Extractor plugin.

How it works

1

Search your tags

Trigger ot in Alfred. A full list of every tag in the vault appears. Start typing to narrow the list down to matching tags.
2

Select a tag

Press on a tag to drill into it. Alfred now shows all notes that carry that tag.
3

Open a note

Use any modifier key to act on the note, exactly as in the main o search.

Keyboard modifiers

On a tag result

ShortcutAction
Show all notes with this tag
⌘ + ⏎Open Obsidian’s search pane filtered to this tag

On a note result (after selecting a tag)

All modifiers from the main o search are available:
ShortcutAction
Open the note in Obsidian
⌘ + ⏎Open in a new tab (configurable: new window or split)
⌥ + ⏎Reveal the note in Finder
fn + ⏎Append content to the note (prompts for text or uses clipboard)
⌃ + ⏎Copy the Obsidian URI for the note to the clipboard
⇧ + ⏎Browse all links of the note
or ⌘ + YQuick Look preview of the note

Nested tags

Obsidian supports hierarchical nested tags such as #project/active and #project/done. The workflow configuration lets you decide how these appear in the ot list:
  • Keep separate#project/active and #project/done appear as distinct entries.
  • Merge with parent — both are folded under #project, letting you select all notes tagged with any variant of that parent.
Adjust this behaviour in the workflow’s configuration panel in Alfred under the nested tag setting.
Tag search is a fast way to navigate your vault by topic or status. Combine it with a consistent tagging scheme — for example #status/inbox, #status/active, #status/done — and ot becomes a lightweight project dashboard without leaving Alfred.

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