Part 4: Other Things You Can Automate Using Templater Commands and Functions and Other Resources for More Inspiration

Introduction

This is the fourth — and for now final — article in my series on automating your workflow with templates. Use these links to navigate through the series:
- Part 1: Using Templates and Templater in Obsidian
- Part 2: Maximizing the Templates Core Plugin
- Part 3: Using the Templater Community Plugin to Automate Files and Content
- Part 4: Other Things You Can Automate Using Templater Commands and Functions and Other Resources for More Inspiration

As I wrap up this article, I thought I’d run few several templater commands and functions and then you can let your mind run through with those. If you find this useful, I hope you’ll post comments with your own examples or let me know how you put these together to build templates that let you automate different tasks in your life.

Insert a new file as a link into a log/other file

[[<% (await tp.file.create_new(tp.file.find_tfile(“Template Name”), tp.date.now(“YYYY-MM-DD”) + “ Name of New File”, false)).basename %>]] — If you use a Daily Note as a log, having this command saved as a template (or even several different templates — all point to different templates — you can call it from within your daily note and immediately create a new link to a properly named new file in the…