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# 2026-04-17 14:57:07

## Templater Community Plugin

[Templater](https://silentvoid13.github.io/Templater/introduction.html)
is an [[obsidian]] community plugin
which appears at first glance to be for note templates,
like the Templates core plugin,
but it's really more of a low-level plugin
for executing arbitrary [[javascript]] on your vault
which happens to be useful for templates.

I believe I tried it once before,
but I bounced off the use patterns.

A "template" to Templater
is better called a _script_,
but unlike in most interpreters,
text is passed through by default.
Body text is not necessary either,
you could have a "template" that's just straight JS
(via the <%* %> syntax).

Many community plugins could be replaced with templates,
namely those with simple behavior and no GUI.

I think Templater may be ideal for [[vault-maintenance]] scripts,
one because it doesn't require a separate runtime,
but mostly because scripts can be written in Obsidian.

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