Templater User Scripts
for Obsidian

ℹ️ Description

This repository contains opinionated, but convenient, user scripts built around the Templater plugin for Obsidian.

⬇️ Installation

Prerequisites

The installation steps that follow below assume a couple of things:

1. You have an Obsidian vault.
2. You have already installed and enabled the Templater community plugin.
3. You correctly registered your templates folder in the Templater settings.

Depending on how you handle your vault, you can either use git to install the user scripts in this repository, or you can manually download and place them in your vault.

The git way 💻

Add this repository as a submodule to your vault in a location of your choice. Suppose you want to add the submodule to the Scripts directory in the root of your vault. In a terminal, you need to do the following:

# Change directory to the root of your vault.
cd /path/to/your/vault

# Add this repository as a submodule to your vault.
git submodule add https://github.com/mihaiconstantin/obsidian-templater-scripts.git Scripts

At this point, you should have a Scripts directory in the root of your vault that contains the contents of this repository.

Note. In most cases, after executing the git submodule command above git will automatically download the contents of the repository in the Scripts directory. However, if your git version is seriously outdated, you may need to explicitly initialize the submodule by executing the following command:

# Download the submodule contents.
git submodule update --init --recursive

The manual way 👀

Download a .zip archive of this repository, unpack it, and copy the contents of the unpacked folder to a location of your choice in the Obsidian vault (e.g., in the Scripts folder in the root of your vault).

Registering the scripts ⚙️

The final step in the installation process is informing Templater about the location of the Scripts folder. You may want to check this resource for more information. In a nutshell, you need to indicate in the Templater settings where the Scripts folder is located, as shown below:

Additionally, you may also want to exclude this folder from the search results. To do this, you need to add the Scripts folder to the list of excluded folders in the Obsidian settings, as shown below:

At this point, you are ready to start using the scripts in this repository in your templates.

🚀 Features

This repository exposes several scripts to the Templater tp object. Each of the scripts are available as a property of the tp.user object in the context of a template. Below you can see a table with the available scripts and a brief description. Check out the documentation for each script (i.e., via the link) for more information and examples on how to use them.

🔗 User Script	Description
prompt	Prompts the user based on a configuration object.
makeNote	Create a new note from template in a specified location, or insert a template at the cursor, without automated prompting.
makeNoteWithPrompting	Create a new note from template in a specified location, or insert a template at the cursor, with automated prompting.

Contributing

Any contributions, suggestions, or bug reports are welcome and greatly appreciated. Please open an issue or submit a pull request.

⚖️ License

This repository is licensed under the MIT license.