[RFC] Custom Templates

[lostdesign]

I've reached multiple requests of a possibility to have and use templates in linked. I'd like to hear your thoughts here and how you'd imagine how templates should work.

My idea

Creating templates

You'd have a separate view, either which is opened from the settings or directly by shortcut ¹ that shows you all of your templates and lets you create new ones. Creating a new template would simply route you to a editor view in which you have the same editor as you use everyday but with out the calendar fuzz.

Another way of creating templates would be: If inside a day and a selection has been made, the bubble menu ² would give you an option to save the selection as a template.

Recurring templates

Within the template view, you'd be able to select a default template to use for every day OR even templates per days.

Manual use of templates

By using the new slash commands ³ you could look for templates which then would show a second slash menu dropdown to select the desired template. If you already know the name, typing /template caturday + Enter would replace the current content with the template or place it at the current cursor ⁴.

Technical things that would need to be implemented

1. Wait for Slash menus
2. optional: Placeholder extension to make dynamic templates with varying headlines as example
3. Checking wether patching the current content with the new html is easily doable
4. Figure out a good UI and UX for managing and using templates
5. Probably storing the templates inside the app dir, as json files yet again to store meta-data alongside the template itself
6. Checking wether placeholders in templates could be created
7. Checking wether sharing templates should be a thing, that could lead to security issues however

Open questions / tasks

Going to add questions and tasks here to track them.

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Footnotes

1. This could lead to an issue of having too many shortcuts eventually ↩

2. The menu that appears when you select anything in the editor ↩

3. To be released soon in 1.5.x ↩

4. Requires some research ↩

[nlisijs]

Hi! thanks for your app in the first place. I have been using it every day to takes notes from my daily work. It help a lot for the daily meetings.

The template would be an awesome functionality. I have a template (created in linked) and now I'm copy pasting this text in the next day using Ctrl+N and Ctrl+V for one month approximately.

So I think that "inside a day and a selection has been made, the bubble menu would give you an option to save the selection as a template." is a good start point. At the same time, once the "save selection as template" option is selected, the following days the template will be automatically loaded.

Again, your app is great, thank you very much.