Note Templates

The demo vault ships with five ready-to-use templates in templates/. Two Obsidian plugins can use them to auto-fill frontmatter when you create a new note.

Available templates

QuickAdd (recommended)

QuickAdd prompts you for values when creating a note, then fills frontmatter automatically. All five commands are pre-configured in the demo vault and available via Ctrl+P.

Usage: 1. Press Ctrl+P → type the command (e.g. New Post) 2. QuickAdd prompts for title, summary, etc. 3. Choose a folder — the note opens with frontmatter ready

{{VALUE:Label}} prompts for user input. {{DATE:YYYY-MM-DD}} inserts today's date.

Template contents

web page template

---
website: true
title: {{VALUE:Title}}
date: {{DATE:YYYY-MM-DD}}
summary: "{{VALUE:Summary}}"
tags:
  - 
---

homepage template

---
website: true
type: homepage
title: {{VALUE:Title}}
date: {{DATE:YYYY-MM-DD}}
language: en
show_search: false
show_tags: false
---

listing page template

---
website: true
type: listing
title: {{VALUE:Title}}
date: {{DATE:YYYY-MM-DD}}
summary: "{{VALUE:Summary}}"
---

book template

---
website: true
type: book
title: {{VALUE:Title}}
date: {{DATE:YYYY-MM-DD}}
author: "{{VALUE:Author}}"
summary: "{{VALUE:Summary}}"
tags:
  - 
---

translations template

Frontmatter:

---
type: translations
lang: {{VALUE:Language code (e.g. ru, fr, de)}}
---

Body (a fenced yaml block — add your translated strings):

Search: 
Tags: 
"All tags": 
"min read": 
Featured: 
"All Posts": 

Core Templates (simpler alternative)

Obsidian's built-in Templates plugin inserts a template into the current note but can't prompt for values.

1. Enable Templates in Settings → Core plugins
2. Set Template folder location to templates/
3. Open a new note → run Templates: Insert template → pick a template
4. Fill in the frontmatter fields manually

Optional fields to add manually

The templates cover required fields only. Add these when needed:

See Frontmatter Reference for the full list.