What is Template in Obsidian

Templates is a core plugin that lets you insert pre-defined snippets of text into your active note.

What does a Template look like in MarkDown?

---

title:

date: 2025-01-01

author: John Doe

draft: false

tags: [''], ['']

---

Set your template folder 

1. In the bottom-left corner, click Settings.
2. Under Core plugins → Templates → Template folder location, enter the folder containing your templates.

Set a hotkey for inserting template

1. Still, in the bottom-left corner, click Settings.
2. Under Hotkeys, search for templates.
3. Find Templates: Insert template. I set it to ctrl + T as a keyboard short cut.