Double tagging a block of text with TWO or more inline tags

[saccentekennedy]

Hi all,

I'm quite new to using Dataview and Obsidian... but I have managed to put together a workflow which works well for me. I will explain briefly.

I read academic papers via Zotero, and I annotate with highlights/comments. I then use the Zotero Integration to pull all these annotations into Obsidian. I have it set up so that when I highlight, say, a paragraph and add an annotation with a comment in a PDF, the comment I use becomes an inline tag for dataview, by taking the comment I have added and appending "::" at the end. For example this is what it will look like once my note is imported:

costs--:: "This is the text from the academic paper"

This works really well! I have a dataview table that queries, 'costs--', and will return "This is the text from the academic paper". The problem I have is that I would like to DOUBLE TAG that particular text. I thought I could stack the tags like this:

costs--:: population--:: "This is the text from the academic paper".

So that, regardless of whether I query 'costs--' or 'population--', it will return "This is the text from the academic paper."

Dataview only 'sees' the first tag (costs--::) and ignores the second. I am taking advantage of the tag being set automatically until the carriage return at the end of the annotation, so I don't have to use closed brackets.

Is there a way to stack tags (not nest them)... so that the same text is double-marked, and will come up regardless of which tag is queried?

Any help would be so welcomed! Thank you all!