The autoTemplate is an extention script for the Templater plugin for Obsidian.
The script has been written to address some inconveniences around using Obsidian's frontmatter either handled natively or via Templater. The idea of using prefixes to trigger template application has been borrowed from Pamela Wang's Meta Templater .
The script facilitates two main tasks:
- standardizing the note file name convention to follow Zettelkasten rules
- automation in handling note properties (like ID), especially connected with the moment of creation of the note
The script works only for the frontmatters written in YAML. It does not changes / affects the frontmatter / properties defined in any other way. And it does not work for notes without frontmatter defined at all (although it works for empty ones).
Script is easily configurable with the predefined config object.
1.0 - initial version
This piece of software is released under MPL 2.0.