obsidian-temple

A plugin for templating in Obsidian, powered by Nunjucks.

Configuration

Set the directory that contains the templates to be used inside Settings:

Usages

You can insert a new template by clicking on the button in the sidebar

or via the Command Palette

You will be prompted to choose a template if there are multiple defined

Templating

Since obsidian-temple uses nunjucks under-the-hood, you can use everything supported by nunjucks. Check the official Nunjucks documentation on how to write nunjucks template.

Example: Populating aliases based on filename with Zettelkasten ID

---
uid: "{{ zettel.uid }}"
aliases: ["{{ zettel.title }}"]
tags: []
---

If the filename is 20201224030406 title.md, then the output of the template will be:

---
uid: "20201224030406"
aliases: ["title"]
tags: []
---

It also works if you have the uid as a suffix in the filename, eg: title 20201224030406.md.

zettel is just one of the objects that are provided by obsidian-temple, see Providers for more.

Providers

obsidian-temple currently includes a few providers that can provide the context objects for nunjucks:

• file
• zettel
• datetime
• clipboard

Check their respective documentation at PROVIDERS DOCUMENTATION. You can easily add more providers, see Adding new provider.

Adding new provider

You need to:

1. create a new context class, T
2. implements ITempleProvider<T>
3. register the provider on load

For example, for the datetime provider:

1. the context class is DateTimeContext
2. the provider class is DateTimeTempleProvider
3. the registration is at main.ts

Alternatives

• SilentVoid13/Templater

PROVIDERS DOCUMENTATION

This documentation is best viewed inside Obsidian, which can be generated by activating Command Palette > then select Obsidian Temple: Insert documentation of all providers.

file

Exposes Obsidian's internal TFile structure for templating.

Usages

path: {{ file.path }}
name: {{ file.name }}
basename: {{ file.basename }}
extension: {{ file.extension }}

outputs:

path: Untitled 20210103181939.md
name: Untitled 20210103181939.md
basename: Untitled 20210103181939
extension: md

datetime

Returns the current date and time as Luxon DateTime.

Usage

now: {{ datetime.now }}

day: {{ datetime.now.day }}
month: {{ datetime.now.month }}
year: {{ datetime.now.year }}

hour: {{ datetime.now.hour }}
minute: {{ datetime.now.minute }}
second: {{ datetime.now.second }}

outputs:

now: 2021-01-03T22:21:36.585+08:00

day: 3
month: 1
year: 2021

hour: 22
minute: 21
second: 36

Formatting with dateFormat filter

dateFormat uses Luxon under-the-hood for date formatting. For example:

now: {{ datetime.now | dateFormat("ffff") }}

outputs:

now: Sunday, January 3, 2021, 10:21 PM Singapore Standard Time

See Luxon's documentation for a complete list of formatting tokens that can be used.

Settings

You can override the default locale and timezone under Settings.

zettel

Extracts uid and title from notes that have the Zettelkasten ID.

Usages

Given a file named 20201224030406 title.md, the following template

uid: {{ zettel.uid }}
title: {{ zettel.title }}

outputs:

uid: 20201224030406
title: title.md

Works even if the uid is used as a suffix, eg. title 20201224030406.md.

Settings

You can override the extraction regex under Settings.

clipboard

Extracts data from your system clipboard. Uses sindresorhus/clipboardy.

Usages

text: {{ clipboard.text }}

outputs:

text: content