Notebook Navigator’s Portuguese Request Exposes a Misinformation Blind Spot

The Reddit post was straightforward: a Portuguese-speaking user asked Notebook Navigator to display note properties — specifically tags — in the navigation pane ^[1]. To the plugin’s developers, this is a reasonable UX request. To the journalists and researchers who now depend on Obsidian for tracking AI-generated propaganda, it is a request for basic threat triage. The plugin’s current interface shows only note titles, which collapses the visual distinction between a verified-source article and a deepfake archive. Without tags visible from the pane, every note demands a click to assess…