Indexed Markdown hashtags not recognised

I am maintaining course notes using IA Writer, which are organised into files and folders.

I tag notes with terms like #verb, #noun, #adjective and so on.

I always have DT3 open at the same time with a database that indexes the folder structure, and that makes it easy to find notes with particular terms, words or word endings - great.

I’ve noticed however that a number of the markdown documents when viewed in DT3 have no tags displayed at the bottom of the window. Sometimes, one of the tags is missing, but other tags are shown. It doesn’t seem consistent.

When I look at the sidebar and browse the tags that DT3 has recognised, some categories are now completely empty, whereas they used to point to documents - notably #verbs which should have many documents within it.

If I edit a problem document and save it, the tags will appear, but since I always have DT3 and IA Writer open at the same time, this should have been happening anyway.

‘Update Indexed Items’ doesn’t seem to resolve the issue. I could re-create the database since it’s indexed content, but if it happens again I again risk ‘losing content’ in that it disappears from the tag index.

Example markdown below:

한국인 has the same meaning as 한국 사람.

There are three ways to refer to someone from a country, by attaching 사람, 인, or 분 to the end of the country's name.

#noun
#connector

What OS and version of DEVONthink?

Sequoia 15.1.1 and DT3 3.9.8

What is set in DEVONthink’s Settings > Files > Import?

Convert hashtags to tags - Set
Convert keywords to tags - Not set
Convert properties to tags - Not set
Convert geolocation to tags - Not set
Add Vision suggestions to images - Not set

In the interests of time, I’ve created a new database and re-imported the folders so I can keep going.

#verb that was previously 0 is now showing 32 documents, which matches the number shown in the Finder if I select the tag there.

I put my hashtags on adjacent lines like this:

#verb
#tense

Is that OK?

re-imported the folders

reimported or reindexed?

I put my hashtags on adjacent lines like this:

#verb
#tense

Is that OK?

Yes, that’s fine.

My bad, I meant I re-indexed the content !

Work with the new database a bit and see if the issue recurs.

Will do, thanks for your replies.

You’re welcome :slight_smile: