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Templater Community Plugin
Templater 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.
Ensure all linked periodic notes exist:
- Get all linked periodic notes that don't exist
- Create each with all appropriate frontmatter properties
- Repeat until all exist.