Best way to save file based on template?

[fredrikaverpil]

Hi 👋 and thanks for this very fine project!

I would like to understand how to work with templates. I can create a new document based on a template with :ObsidianTemplate, but this doesn't automatically define a filepath (like :ObsidianNew does) so I can't just hit :w to save the document. Instead I have to actually define the full path to my vault and then the filename I want.

I also cannot run :ObsidianRename as this assumes I've already saved the file first.

What's a good workflow here?
I am looking to set up templates: project, resource, meeting notes etc.

[epwalsh]

Hey @fredrikaverpil, sounds like we might need a new command for this, but you could also do this programmatically with obsidian.nvim's Lua API. For example:

local client = require("obsidian").get_client()
client:create_note { title = "Foo", dir = client.dir / "notes" / "project1", template = "project_template" }

[fredrikaverpil]

Hey @epwalsh and thanks for the suggestion.

I tried this, and for some reason, the frontmatter from the template isn't used. For example, I have date: "{{date}}" in the project_template frontmatter, but that doesn't go into the new note.

---
id: project template
aliases:
  - "{{title}}"
tags: 
date: "{{date}}"
---

If I run :ObsidianTemplate project_template the date is correctly inserted.

Do you see this on your end too?

I'm also getting an error unless I add .md to the end of the template in the lua command (the actual file on disk resides in Templates/project_template.md in my vault and I've configured the plugin to use the "Templates" folder.

local client = require("obsidian").get_client()
client:create_note { title = "Foo", dir = client.dir / "projects", template = "project_template.md" }
client:open_note(note)

[epwalsh]

@fredrikaverpil seems to work fine for me. Make sure you have the latest commit.

[fredrikaverpil]

I must have been on an old commit or something, yes. It works fine now with your original code. Thanks!