Templates?

travis51

Hi all, I just found this app and it’s pretty much been the thing I’ve been looking for. The only feature that I really feel is missing is template creation. I couldn’t seen anything about it in the roadmap post. Even something static would be helpful, but ideally templates could also include ‘commands’ similar to Obsidian.md. For example when a template is inserted containing the string {{date}}, {{date}} get’s replaced with the the current date, ie 11-23-21. Some more sophisticated commands could mirror items fitting specific filtering criteria which would be helpful for daily notes, ie {{items:date:today}}. I think templates would be great for keeping order and minimizing copying / pasting in notes.

Jerud

Templates are an often-requested feature that is in the developer’s plans, but not in the short term.

I haven’t used Obsidian; maybe it has a different mode of use than Legend. I have always thought of templates as a “starting point” for creating documents – perhaps with custom formatting to go with it – but once that’s kicked off the document is yours and the template is not “active”. Your description of “templates” sounds more like inserting preset “snippets” that you use in individual items or notes. That seems like something you could handle with a “text expander” utility. Some text expanders have the <date> functionality you describe.

Legend currently tracks created, modified, and completed item-dates, although this information isn’t super-visible. RMB on an item and look at the bottom of the popup to read these dates. You can also configure Panes to group/sort items by the created/modified/complete dates, but honestly those Panetypes need some refinement.