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Note templates

A New note template is used when a Folder Destination creates a new note. Use it to give Daily Notes, meeting notes or inbox notes the same structure and Properties every time. You can also reuse a note from your Obsidian templates folder.

Note template vs. Wrap capture

A note template is applied once, when the note is created. Wrap capture wraps every capture you add. You can use both: the note template builds the note, and Wrap capture formats each entry inside it.

Turn it on

  1. Open a Folder Destination (Settings → Destinations).
  2. Under New notes, turn on New note template.
  3. Tap ⚙ to set up the template, then save.

Template sources

Existing File

Tap Pick Template Note and choose a note from your Vault, for example a file in your Obsidian Templates folder.

  • Use the {{content}} token to define where the captured text is placed.
  • The file is read again every time a note is created, so edits you make to it in Obsidian apply right away.

Custom

Write the template in the app:

  • Template body: a Markdown editor for the note’s text. Include {{content}} where your capture should go.
  • Properties: tap to add a Property, drag to reorder, and tap a Property’s type icon to change it: Text, Number, List, Checkbox, Date, Date & time, Tags or Aliases, or Remove it.
  • Load from file: imports the Properties and body of an existing note as a starting point.
  • A token toolbar inserts {{content}}, {{title}}, {{auto}} and {{gps}} into the body, and {{title}}, {{auto}} and {{gps}} into Property values ({{gps}} isn’t offered for Tags).

Tokens in templates

Templates can use any token, including date tokens. For example:

---
created: {{YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm}}
tags: inbox
---
# {{auto}}

{{content}}

When the template is used

  • Only when the note is new, or exists but is blank. If the note already has content, the template is skipped. History shows Skipped template for destination … Note already exists.
  • After it’s applied, History shows Note created using the template for destination: ….
  • Properties from the template are merged with the Properties you fill in on the Home screen. If you set a value in the editor, it wins.

Start writing from the template

When the active Route’s folder Destination has a note template, the empty Home editor shows the template as a tappable placeholder instead of What’s on your mind?. Tap it to insert the template and start typing where {{content}} was.

Because the template is already in your draft, Quick Draft won’t add it again on save. Wrap capture is skipped for that Destination too (Skipped capture wrap. Template for destination … already applied).

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