Bases: New With Template (for 'New' Button)

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Use case or problem

I absolutely love the Bases feature. I love that I can make a list of files. I also love the “new” button at the top. However, with the current use, my workflow is add a new note, delete everything in the note, and replace with a template (because it won’t replace the properties therein).

Proposed solution

Please add a dropdown (or modifier to the button, like ctrl-button) to allow us to create with a template. It can auto tie into the core templates plugin, or the templater plugin. It would streamline the workflow and make it easier to add files to the list of the base. Thanks.

Current workaround (optional)

Right now, the only workaround I’m using, as previously stated, is to use the button, delete the contents, then add the template.

Thank you for your consideration.

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This is a great suggestion and I have two recommended additions:

  1. It would be nice to be able to provide the default template(s) to be used with the ‘New’ Button. We could select the template in the GUI and that could be saved in the YAML .base file.
  2. It would be nice to be able to save where new files should be saved when we use the ‘New’ Button.
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100% agreed! I came to the forum to post this feature suggestion, and I found this post. I’m glad someone else already mentioned it.

I also agree with @DandyLyons. I can totally see this setting being persisted in the YAML base file.

I have some additional notes:

  • Bases have different views. Each view can have significantly different properties and configurations, so it could be helpful to have the setting at the base level, with the option to override it per view. Imagine I have a Places category (as demonstrated in Kepano’s vault), and I use both Restaurant and Hotel templates. If I have one view for listing restaurants and another for hotels, I may want to trigger different templates when creating a new item.
  • The setting could support a list of templates rather than just one. For example, I might have a base Place template, plus specific ones for Restaurant and Hotel. Currently, applying multiple templates to a note merges the properties. Similarly, this setting could allow a list of templates to be applied in sequence, just like you would for a note.

Finally, and perhaps this deserves a separate ticket, it would be amazing to have an option to specify a default folder for new notes created from a base. Same idea: I store all “Places” notes in a /Places folder, but after clicking New, I still have to manually move the note to the correct location.

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