epwalsh / epwalsh/obsidian.nvim
Notes creation from templates
- Dominant language
- Lua
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Description
### 🚀 The feature, motivation and pitch
Current support of templates seems to only allow inserting template-based text in **already created note.**
It would be super nice to be able to create new notes **from templates** as well.
The flow I have in mind is something like this:
1. `:ObisidianNewFromTemplate [title]`
2. The list of available templates shows up
3. Upon selection, a new note is created, based on the selected template
That also requires templates to support substitutions from values that are only available at the note creation time, for example, an id, generated by `note_id_func`.
### Alternatives
Custom command:
```
vim.api.nvim_create_user_command("ObsidianNewFromTemplate", function()
vim.cmd("ObsidianNew")
vim.cmd("normal! G") -- go to end of file
vim.cmd("ObsidianTemplate")
end, {})
```
as suggested by @sotte
### Additional context
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Contributor guide
Research direction
No source file or test is named. Start by tracing the existing :ObsidianNew and :ObsidianTemplate commands and note_id_func handling; done means a new :ObsidianNewFromTemplate flow can select a template, create the note from it, and resolve creation-time substitutions.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- lua
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100