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id: 2026-04-17T14:57:07-0400
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aliases: []
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title: 2026-04-17 14:57:07
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- status/draft
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dg-publish: true
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date-created: 2026-04-17T14:57:07-04:00
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daily: "[[2026-04-17]]"
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---
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# 2026-04-17 14:57:07
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## Templater Community Plugin
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[Templater](https://silentvoid13.github.io/Templater/introduction.html)
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is an [[obsidian]] community plugin
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which appears at first glance to be for note templates,
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like the Templates core plugin,
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but it's really more of a low-level plugin
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for executing arbitrary [[javascript]] on your vault
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which happens to be useful for templates.
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I believe I tried it once before,
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but I bounced off the use patterns.
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A "template" to Templater
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is better called a _script_,
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but unlike in most interpreters,
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text is passed through by default.
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Body text is not necessary either,
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you could have a "template" that's just straight JS
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(via the <%* %> syntax).
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Many community plugins could be replaced with templates,
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namely those with simple behavior and no GUI.
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I think Templater may be ideal for [[vault-maintenance]] scripts,
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one because it doesn't require a separate runtime,
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but mostly because scripts can be written in Obsidian.
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***
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