Templates Map

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• How to Use Templates
• How to Use the Add-on Templates

Templates are growing in importance. Why? Largely because of Collections.

Base Templates

• Base Template: Just the basics: up, related, and created
  • Base Template w In: Includes “in” for collections
  • Base Template w Tags: Includes “tags”
• Daily Template: Just created

Atlas Templates & Collections

Maps

• Map (MOC) Template - For manual gathering, developing, creating
• Map (View) Template - For more passive, dynamic dashboards

Things No template (it's a trap to classify every "thing")

Collections — Collections Template

Concepts — Concepts Template

People

• People Template - Base
• People Template Pro - Base with lifespan & cultural things
• People add-on - Prominent - Adds lifespan & cultural things
• People add-on - ROAR - Adds a way to manage relationships

Entities — Entities Template

Statements No template (it's a trap to classify every statement note)

Questions — Questions Template

Quotes — Quotes Template

Books

• Book Template - Base that BookSearch uses
• Book Template (Backup) - If things get wonky, this is a solid backup

Movies

• Movie Template (QuickAdd) - Base that QuickAdd uses
• Movie Template (Backup) - If things get wonky, this is a solid backup

Series

• Series Template (QuickAdd) - Base that QuickAdd uses
• Series Template (Backup) - If things get wonky, this is a solid backup

Calendar Templates & Collections

• Daily Template - Base

• Daily Template w ± 1 Week Window - Includes a query with Calendar notes created in the 7 days before & after this note.

Meetings — Meetings Template

• Linked Calendar Notes add-on - Lists all notes in Calendar mentioning the note

Efforts Templates & Collections

Efforts — Efforts Template

• Outputs Template - Just a basic one

Add-ons

These are not full templates, but rather add-ons

• Idea add-ons
  • Unrequited Notes add-on - Resurfaces the right thing at the right time
  • Unmentioned Notes add-on, Related Tag - Relies on related tags
• Time add-ons
  • Time Windows add-on ± 1 and ± 3 Day - Leverage time context
  • Linked Calendar Notes add-on - Great for pulling in meeting notes
• People add-ons
  • People add-on - Prominent - Adds lifespan & cultural things
  • People add-on - ROAR - Adds a way to manage relationships
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  • Lorem 50 add-on - Around 50 words of Latin dummy text
  • Lorem 500 Add-on - Around 500 words of Latin dummy text

Note: Add these templates to your Templates folder as needed. If you’re unfamiliar with templates, you can review Obsidian’s documentation here.