How To Get Started With Templater

Installation instructions

• Navigate to community plugins, browse plugins, and install Templater.

• Return to community plugins and enable the plugin.

• Create a folder for templates (ie. a folder named “Templates”).

• Go to Templater settings and select a “Template Folder Location”.

Create your first template

• Navigate to your templates folder and create a new file.

• All content in the body of the file will be duplicated upon choosing template.

How to choose a template

• Navigate to command palette (command + P).

• Find Templater : Open Insert Template modal.

• All files inside the template folder will be found here to select.

• (optional) Create hotkey for each template in the Templater settings page.

The Templater Commands

Insert these commands into the body of a template page.

1. Extract the file’s title

<% tp.file.title %>

2. Extract file’s title without 12-digit Zettelkasten number

<% tp.file.title.slice(13) %>

3. Extract items in the title

Replace [#] with item location between spaces

<% tp.file.title.split(" ")[1] %>

4. Extract items from metadata

Replace [“this text”] with what frontmatter you want to extract.

<% tp.frontmatter["tags"] %>

or

<% tp.file.tags %>

5. Insert date created in metadata

<% tp.file.creation_date("Do MMMM YYYY") %>

6. Extract folder name of file

**Folder**: `<% tp.file.folder() %>`

7. Create daily links for this week (M-Su)

- **Monday** [[<% tp.date.weekday("YYYY-MM-DD", 1) %>]]

- **Tuesday** [[ <% tp.date.weekday("YYYY-MM-DD", 2) %>]]

- **Wednesday** [[<% tp.date.weekday("YYYY-MM-DD", 3) %>]]

- **Thursday** [[<% tp.date.weekday("YYYY-MM-DD", 4) %>]]

- **Friday** [[<% tp.date.weekday("YYYY-MM-DD", 5) %>]]

- **Saturday** [[<% tp.date.weekday("YYYY-MM-DD", 6) %>]]

- **Sunday** [[<% tp.date.weekday("YYYY-MM-DD", 7) %>]]

8. Create daily links for week of file’s title

The file’s title needs to be formatted as “YYYY-MM-DD”.

- **Monday** [[<% tp.date.weekday("YYYY-MM-DD", 1, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") %>]]

- **Tuesday** [[<% tp.date.weekday("YYYY-MM-DD", 2, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") %>]]

- **Wednesday** [[<% tp.date.weekday("YYYY-MM-DD", 3, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") %>]]

- **Thursday** [[<% tp.date.weekday("YYYY-MM-DD", 4, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") %>]]

- **Friday** [[<% tp.date.weekday("YYYY-MM-DD", 5, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") %>]]

- **Saturday** [[<% tp.date.weekday("YYYY-MM-DD", 6, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") %>]]

- **Sunday** [[<% tp.date.weekday("YYYY-MM-DD", 7, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") %>]]

9. Retrieve clipboard content

<% tp.system.clipboard() %>

10. Create drop-down menu to choose from

<% tp.system.suggester(["🔥 Priority 1", "Priority 2", "Priority 3"], ["🔥 Priority 1", "Priority 2", "Priority 3"]) %>

11. Create a text-field form to insert

This will appear as a pop-up form when the template is triggered.

<% tp.system.prompt("Where is he from?", "type place here ...") %>

12. Show yesterday and tomorrow

<< [[<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD", -1) %>]] | [[<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD", 1) %>]] >>

13. yesterday and tomorrow from file title

<< [[<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD", -1, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") %>]] | [[<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD", 1, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") %>]] >>

14. Move file to defined folder

<% await tp.file.move("/Example Folder/" + tp.file.title) %>

15. Create index page from file name

This creates a page to an index for the current folder.

[[§Index-<% tp.file.folder() %>]]