Tag Pairings suggests the tags that occur with the tag you just typed

Name: Tag Pairings
Author: theluckystrike

Type a tag and see the tags that your other notes use with it.

Install in Obsidian

Directory page Source on GitHub

MIT · no telemetry · core features free

The line Finished Hyperion today with the tag book, and under the cursor a box that lists fiction, scifi, history and nonfiction. — Open larger

version: 1.0.0
released: 2026-10-26
downloads: 1
review: Passed
health: Excellent
license: MIT
listed for: Desktop, Mobile
obsidian: 1.13.4 or later

End-to-end tests run on Obsidian 1.13.4 and the latest version on desktop. No mobile test exists.

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About Tag Pairings

You tag notes by hand and want the tags that you used together before.

After you type a tag and a space, Tag Pairings opens a box at the cursor. The box lists the tags that occur most often in the same notes as that tag. The tag that shares the most notes is first.

The plugin counts tags on your device. It never writes to your notes on its own. It inserts text only when you pick a tag.

The cursor after a line of text, then the box after #book, then #fiction and #scifi added with two presses of Shift+Enter

Free features

Suggestions after a tag

Type a tag and a space on any line. A box lists the tags that share the most notes with it. The list leaves out the tags that the note already has and the tags on the current line.

Add one tag after the other

Press Shift+Enter or Tab, or click a tag, to add it. Enter adds a tag only after you move the highlight with Up or Down, so Enter still makes a new line. The box then opens again with the tags that occur with the tag you just added.

The line now ends with the tags book and fiction, and the box lists the tags that occur with fiction. — Open larger

Nested tags and front matter

The plugin reads the tags from the metadata cache of Obsidian, the same source as the tag pane. Tags in the body and in the tags property count the same. A nested tag counts for its parents too.

The box after the tag project lists work, meeting, project/hiring, project/launch and urgent. — Open larger

Live Preview and Source mode

The box works in Live Preview and in Source mode. It does not open in a code block, in inline code or in the front matter.

Source mode with the box after the tag history. — Open larger

The free version shows up to 20 tags, without counts, and counts the whole vault.

Pro features

Pro costs $5 a month or $15 one time through GitHub Sponsors. One sponsorship turns on Pro in every plugin that has it.

Counts Pro

Pro shows the number of shared notes next to each tag. It can count only the notes in the folder of the current note. It also sets the list length from 5 to 50 tags.

The box after the tag book with a number next to each tag. — Open larger

See how Pro works

Set up Tag Pairings

needs

Obsidian 1.13.4 or later

steps

Enable the plugin. There is nothing to set up.
Open a note in Live Preview or Source mode.
Type a tag, for example #recipe, then a space.
Press Shift+Enter or Tab to add the highlighted tag. Or move the highlight with Up or Down, then press Enter.
Press Escape to close the box and keep typing.

If the app can't find a new plugin yet, try again later. Obsidian says a plugin that passes the review shows in the app within 24 hours.

Why this exists

A forum request from 2020, Tag Suggestions, asks to quickly add associated tags. The topic has 11 likes.

Tag Suggestions (Quickly add associated tags)opened 2020-05-27

Questions about Tag Pairings

Why does no box open after my tag?

No other tag shares a note with that tag yet, or each tag that does is already in the note or on the line. The box also stays closed in code, in the front matter and when the # follows a letter.

Does Enter still make a new line?

Yes. Until you move the highlight with Up or Down, Enter closes the box and makes a new line. After Up or Down, Enter adds the highlighted tag. Shift+Enter and Tab always add it.

Is the case of a tag kept?

Obsidian treats Book and book as one tag. The plugin does the same, and it inserts the spelling that most of your notes use.

Does it use AI or send my tags anywhere?

No. It counts tags on your device. The free features make no network requests.

Network use

Until you select Sign in with GitHub, Tag Pairings makes no network requests. Sign in and the sponsorship check contact github.com and api.github.com with the scope read:user, and a successful check is reused for 7 days. The plugin sends no note content, file names or other vault data.

Read the full network disclosure