diff --git a/obsidian-ssg.fish b/obsidian-ssg.fish
index c4cd748..71704cc 100644
--- a/obsidian-ssg.fish
+++ b/obsidian-ssg.fish
@@ -7,9 +7,11 @@ function obsidian-ssg
     set vault_path $argv[1] # ~/path/to/obsidian-vault/
     set site_path $argv[2] # ~/path/to/final-site/
     # must be compliant with pandoc's html template language
-    set html_template $argv[3] # /path/to/pandoc-template.html 
-
-    mkdir $site_path"/rss"
+    set blog_template $argv[3] # /path/to/pandoc-template.html
+    set note_template $argv[4] # /path/to/pandoc-template.html
+    set recipe_template $note_template # /path/to/pandoc-template.html
+    set
+    mkdir $site_path"rss"
     # Atom file and header creation (creates a blog feed and a notes feed)
     set feeds $site_path"rss/blog.xml" $site_path"rss/notes.xml" $site_path"rss/recipes.xml"
 
@@ -58,34 +60,44 @@ function obsidian-ssg
         set modified (yq -e -N --front-matter=extract '.date-modified' $file) # frontmatter 'date-modified' YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS
         set title (string sub -s 4 -e -1 \"(yq -e -N --front-matter=extract '.aliases' $file)[1]\") # frontmatter 'first alias'
         set type (yq -e -N --front-matter=extract '.type' $file) # frontmatter 'type'
-        set page_tags (yq -e -N --front-matter=extract '.tags' $file) # frontmatter 'tags'
+        set page_tags (string sub -s 2 \"(string trim --chars=\"- \" \"(yq -e -N --front-matter=extract '.tags' $file )\")\") # frontmatter 'tags'
         set date_created (string sub -l 10 $created) # frontmatter 'date-created' YYYY-MM-DD
         set date_modified (string sub -l 10 $modified) # frontmatter 'date-modified' YYYY-MM-DD
-        # convert markddown to html
-        pandoc $file --standalone --template $html_template --metadata title="$title" -o "$site_path$page_name"
 
         # populate both rss feeds
         if not string match -rq 'index|old|draft' $type
             # set destination file
+            set html_template $note_template
             switch $type
                 case blog
+                    set html_template $blog_template
                     set atom_file $feeds[1] # sets active feed to blog if the input file is of type: blog
                 case note
+                    set html_template $note_template
                     set atom_file $feeds[2] # sets active feed to notes if the is of type: note
                 case recipe
+                    set html_template $recipe_template
                     set atom_file $feeds[3] # sets active feed to recipes if the is of type: recipe
             end
-            # create entry
-            echo "  <entry>" >>"$atom_file"
-            echo "    <title>"$title"</title>" >>"$atom_file"
-            echo "    <summary>$summary</summary>" >>"$atom_file"
-            echo "    <published>$created""Z""</published>" >>"$atom_file"
-            echo "    <updated>$modified""Z""</updated>" >>"$atom_file"
-            echo "    <link href=\"https://proto.garden/$page_name\"/>" >>"$atom_file"
-            echo "    <id>tag:proto.garden,"$date_created":$path</id>" >>"$atom_file"
-            echo "    <content type=\"xhtml\"><div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\">$content</div></content>" >>"$atom_file"
-            echo "  </entry>" >>"$atom_file"
         end
+        # convert markddown to html
+        pandoc $file --standalone --template $html_template --metadata title="$title" --metadata date-modified="$date_modified" --metadata date-created="$date_created" -o "$site_path$page_name"
+
+        # create entry
+        echo "  <entry>" >>"$atom_file"
+        echo "    <title>"$title"</title>" >>"$atom_file"
+        echo "    <summary>$summary</summary>" >>"$atom_file"
+        echo "    <published>$created""Z""</published>" >>"$atom_file"
+        echo "    <updated>$modified""Z""</updated>" >>"$atom_file"
+        echo "    <link href=\"https://proto.garden/$page_name\"/>" >>"$atom_file"
+        echo "    <id>tag:proto.garden,"$date_created":$path</id>" >>"$atom_file"
+        # TODO; ftx to allow for multi-line tags
+        # set categories (string trim --chars=, "$page_tags")
+        # for category in (string split " " ",$categories")
+        #     echo "<category term=\"$category\"/>" >>"$atom_file"
+        # end
+        echo "    <content type=\"xhtml\"><div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\">$content</div></content>" >>"$atom_file"
+        echo "  </entry>" >>"$atom_file"
     end
 
     for file in **/*.html
@@ -109,5 +121,4 @@ function obsidian-ssg
     # cleanup markdown files
     cd $site_path
     rm **/*.md
-    # sitemap-generator https://proto.garden
 end