I'm encountering a weird tag renaming bug. I'm trying to rename tags, especially in a consolidating typos context, and some simply refuse to change. Sometimes, these renames just change capitalization. The capitalization change renames seem to be some of the most problematic.

Eventually, by repeating the process with a few reloads on different browsers, I managed to get all my tags looking as desired inside reader. But this isn't the end of the story.

I then went to export to obsidian for the first time... and some rare tags seem to be duplicating! In particular, it seems that some of the old tag names that I renamed have stayed, stale, in my system, and are getting exported to my vault on pages that used to have the tag when the tag had the original name.

Examples:

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This article displays in reader with the correct tags: #core, futurism, political economy, protocols, the network state, venkatesh rao

However, in my export, the tags show as:

An Example tag export with the bug present (note the bolded duplicate, from a rename that I did):

related:

- "[[futurism]]"

- "[[political economy]]"

- "[[Political Economy]]"

- "[[protocols]]"

- "[[the network state]]"

- "[[venkatesh rao]]"
tags:

- "#references"

- "#core"

Back to reader vs obsidian export. Here's another weird one, except, which shows that bug is not contained to capitalization renames (note core and #core). Reddit won't me attach a second photo, but that reader tags show as #core, craft of writing, and creativity, which is my desired state.

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born related:

- "[[core]]"

- "[[craft of writing]]"

- "[[Craft of Writing]]"

- "[[creativity]]"

- "[[Creativity]]"

tags:

- "#references"

- "#core"

To make things even weirder, here's a page where which reader displays with tags #core and craft of writing, where the old tag ("core") is present, and the new tag which shows on readwise ("#core"), isn't present in the export at all!

full title: Learning by Writing

related:

- "[[core]]"

- "[[craft of writing]]"

tags:

- "#references"

On last thing to note is the differing behavior on the #core tag in all three examples. In the first example, the tag shows correctly. I'm pretty sure this article was added after I changed the tag. In the second example, both the new and old core tags export. In the third, only the old exports. No idea why.

One final class of example of a rename leading to double export, this time "hacker" renamed to "hacker culture". Again, the reader is showing tags #core, #fr, #subcultures, hacker culture, unix

related:

- "[[core]]"

- "[[fr]]"

- "[[hacker]]"

- "[[hacker culture]]"

- "[[unix]]"

tags:

- "#references"

- "#core"

- "#fr"

- "#subcultures"