Bases Templates

Press New in a base and get a note made from your template, not a blank one.

This is the behaviour asked for in the forum thread Bases: New With Template (for 'New' Button).

Use it

1. Open a base and pick the view you add notes from.
2. Open the command palette and run Bases Templates: Choose the template for this base view.
3. Pick a template note. That's it: New in that view now makes the note from it.

To set it for every view in a base at once, or to change it later, go to Settings → Bases Templates. Each line is a base, a view (leave it empty for every view) and a template. A line for one view wins over a line for the whole base.

What goes into the new note

• The template's properties are added to the note.
• The values the base fills in for its filters always win. If a view only shows status: finished, a new note there keeps status: finished even when the template says to read, so it stays in the view.
• Lists are joined without repeats: a base's tags: [book] plus a template's tags: [book, fiction] gives [book, fiction].
• The template's text goes under the properties.
• {{title}}, {{date}}, {{time}}, {{date:FORMAT}} and {{time:FORMAT}} are filled in, as in Obsidian's own Templates.
• If the template uses Templater (<% ... %>) and Templater is installed, Templater fills it in, and the base's values are kept.
• Views made by the Split Groups plugin are left alone, since Split Groups sets its own template per view.

Only notes made with a base's New are touched. Notes made any other way are left alone. It does not rely on the new note being called "Untitled", so it works in every language.

Settings

• Templates folder: where the template lists look first. Leave it empty to list every note.

Build

npm install
npm run build
npm test
npm run lint

Licence

MIT