Note Templates

Foam supports note templates. Templates are a way to customize the starting content for your notes (instead of always starting from an empty note).

Note templates are files located in the special .foam/templates directory.

Quickstart

Create a template:

• Run the Foam: Create New Template command from the command palette
• OR manually create a regular .md file in the .foam/templates directory

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To create a note from a template:

• Run the Foam: Create New Note From Template command and follow the instructions. Don't worry if you've not created a template yet! You'll be prompted to create a new template if none exist.
• OR run the Foam: Create New Note command, which uses the special default template (.foam/templates/new-note.md, if it exists)

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Default template

The .foam/templates/new-note.md template is special in that it is the template that will be used by the Foam: Create New Note command. Customize this template to contain content that you want included every time you create a note.

Variables

Templates can use all the variables available in VS Code Snippets.

In addition, you can also use variables provided by Foam:

Note: neither the defaulting feature (eg. ${variable:default}) nor the format feature (eg. ${variable/(.*)/${1:/upcase}/}) (available to other variables) are available for these Foam-provided variables.