diff --git a/components/SettingsUI/BehaviourSettings.tsx b/components/SettingsUI/BehaviourSettings.tsx
index 00aea38..65a2b8f 100644
--- a/components/SettingsUI/BehaviourSettings.tsx
+++ b/components/SettingsUI/BehaviourSettings.tsx
@@ -103,6 +103,19 @@ export const BehaviourSettings: React.FC<Props> = ({ settings, onChange }) => {
 				/>
 			</SettingItem>
 
+			<SettingItem
+				name="Write mapped tags to default status tag"
+				description="When enabled, statuses mapped to custom frontmatter keys are also written to the default status tag."
+			>
+				<input
+					type="checkbox"
+					checked={settings.writeMappedTagsToDefault || false}
+					onChange={(e) =>
+						onChange("writeMappedTagsToDefault", e.target.checked)
+					}
+				/>
+			</SettingItem>
+
 			<SettingItem
 				name="Vault size limit"
 				description="Disable dashboard and grouped view for vaults with more notes than this limit to improve performance. Set to 0 to disable this feature."
diff --git a/constants/defaultSettings.ts b/constants/defaultSettings.ts
index 46df02b..4f4b2f9 100644
--- a/constants/defaultSettings.ts
+++ b/constants/defaultSettings.ts
@@ -52,4 +52,5 @@ export const DEFAULT_PLUGIN_SETTINGS: PluginSettings = {
 	editorToolbarButtonDisplay: "all-notes", // Default to show button in all notes
 	applyStatusRecursivelyToSubfolders: false,
 	statusFrontmatterMappings: [],
+	writeMappedTagsToDefault: false,
 };
diff --git a/core/noteStatusService.ts b/core/noteStatusService.ts
index d0025d4..e5b7781 100644
--- a/core/noteStatusService.ts
+++ b/core/noteStatusService.ts
@@ -106,6 +106,44 @@ export abstract class BaseNoteStatusService {
 		return BaseNoteStatusService.resolveStatusFromIdentifier(statusName);
 	}
 
+	protected toScopedStatusName(
+		status: StatusIdentifier | NoteStatus,
+	): ScopedStatusName {
+		if (typeof status === "string") {
+			return BaseNoteStatusService.parseStatusIdentifier(status);
+		}
+		return {
+			name: status.name,
+			templateId: status.templateId,
+		};
+	}
+
+	protected hasExplicitMappingForStatus(
+		status: StatusIdentifier | NoteStatus,
+	): boolean {
+		const mappings =
+			settingsService.settings.statusFrontmatterMappings ?? [];
+		if (!mappings.length) {
+			return false;
+		}
+		const scoped = this.toScopedStatusName(status);
+		return mappings.some((mapping) => {
+			if (mapping.scope === "status") {
+				return (
+					mapping.statusName === scoped.name &&
+					(mapping.templateId || null) === (scoped.templateId || null)
+				);
+			}
+			if (mapping.scope === "template") {
+				return (
+					Boolean(scoped.templateId) &&
+					mapping.templateId === scoped.templateId
+				);
+			}
+			return false;
+		});
+	}
+
 	protected getStatusMetadataKeys(): string[] {
 		return [settingsService.settings.tagPrefix];
 	}
@@ -196,8 +234,9 @@ export class NoteStatusService extends BaseNoteStatusService {
 			settingsService.settings,
 			{ isMarkdownFile: true },
 		);
-
 		const defaultKey = settingsService.settings.tagPrefix;
+		const mappingMatched = this.hasExplicitMappingForStatus(status);
+
 		if (
 			resolved.length === 1 &&
 			resolved[0] === defaultKey &&
@@ -206,6 +245,15 @@ export class NoteStatusService extends BaseNoteStatusService {
 			resolved = [frontmatterTagName];
 		}
 
+		if (
+			mappingMatched &&
+			settingsService.settings.writeMappedTagsToDefault &&
+			defaultKey &&
+			this.isMarkdownFile()
+		) {
+			resolved = [...resolved, defaultKey];
+		}
+
 		if (options?.includeSourceKey && frontmatterTagName) {
 			resolved = [...resolved, frontmatterTagName];
 		}
diff --git a/types/pluginSettings.ts b/types/pluginSettings.ts
index 896999a..0c8ccfb 100644
--- a/types/pluginSettings.ts
+++ b/types/pluginSettings.ts
@@ -67,5 +67,6 @@ export type PluginSettings = {
 	editorToolbarButtonDisplay: "all-notes" | "active-only"; // Whether to show button in all notes or only active one
 	applyStatusRecursivelyToSubfolders: boolean; // Whether to show recursive folder context option
 	statusFrontmatterMappings: StatusFrontmatterMapping[]; // Custom mappings between templates/statuses and frontmatter keys
+	writeMappedTagsToDefault: boolean; // Whether mapped tags should also write to the default tag
 	[key: string]: unknown;
 };