Published June 27, 2025
I know I'm late to the game but I just started using Obsidian. I wanted something that knows markdown and will sync with all of my devices. I had heard people talking about it and decided I would give it a try. I've been using it for about a week now and I finally learned about templates.
Templates are nothing new to me. I use them all the time. I use them at work. I use them for this site. I don't know why I didn't think about templates in Obsidian until now, but I didn't. So I figured I'd look at the settings and, lo and behold, there's a "core plugin" for templates. But, from what I can tell, it doesn't work on my iPad (or if it does I wasn't able to figure it out.) So to the internet I go where I stumble on this post that talks about a "community plugin" named Templater.
I think I've fallen in love. I've been playing with it for a little bit and I have set up, very easily, the templates I need for blog and TIL posts. With all of the things that I either forget or mistype. Things like the date (if the date isn't in a valid format then the sort fails and the site doesn't render.) Things like descriptions (I want a place holder where the word "description" is spelled properly because, more than once, I have misspelled it which makes it not appear.) Things like the "og_type" so it embeds properly in social media. All the boilerplate I need to fill out when I start working on a post.
Tl; dr templates rock. They make people's lives easier when they're done well.