Obsidian Templates
Official documentation: help.obsidian.md
A core Obsidian plugin which allows you to create new notes with predefined snippets of text or insert them into the current note.
Features
It can do the following things: 1 2
- Insert the contents of a template note into the current note.
- Insert the current date in the default date
format into the current note
(
Templates: Insert current date
command). - Insert the current time in the default time
format into the current note
(
Templates: Insert current time
command).
Template Note
A template note is a note which
is in the path that the Obsidian Templates
Template folder location
setting is set
to. 3
Template Variables
A template variable is a string which will be substituted with values when the template is inserted into the current note or used to create a new note. 4 5
Variable | Description |
---|---|
{{title}} |
Title of the active note. |
{{date}} |
Today's date in the default format as defined by
the Date format setting. |
{{date:format}} |
Today's date in the format
format |
{{time}} |
Today's time in the default format as defined by
the Time format setting. |
{{time:format}} |
Current time in the format
format |
format
can be a Moment.js format
string.
Note that while a format string can be used with
{{date}}
or {{time}}
,
either of the date or time formats can be changed to
use a format that has both the date and time in it.
This works for the default format settings too.