# Cursor placement in Templates plugin (preferably also for Daily Notes template)

**URL:** <https://forum.obsidian.md/t/cursor-placement-in-templates-plugin-preferably-also-for-daily-notes-template/7206>\
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**Created:** [October 18, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/cursor-placement-in-templates-plugin-preferably-also-for-daily-notes-template/7206 "2020-10-18T14:37:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moonbase59](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/moonbase59/32/13648_2.png) [@Moonbase59](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/Moonbase59)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/cursor-placement-in-templates-plugin-preferably-also-for-daily-notes-template/7206/7 "2021-04-22T17:29:53Z")

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You could use _Templater’s_ [`tp.file.cursor(order?: number)`](https://silentvoid13.github.io/Templater/docs/internal-variables-functions/internal-modules/file-module#documentation) function.

If you do, I’d advise changing the hotkey “Templater: Jump to next cursor location” to something like `Ctrl+Tab` (or `Cmd+Tab`) since default `Alt+Tab` (`Opt+Tab`) switches between applications on my Linux machine.

I use this in my Daily Notes template. After filling in the template data, it will jump to the first specified cursor location `<% tp.file.cursor(1) %>`, erase this text and put the cursor there to type.

When pressing `Ctrl+Tab` (in my case), it jumps to `<% tp.file.cursor(2) %>`, erases that text and positions the cursor there.

Thus, it’s only a “one-time jump-through”, but still quite helpful.

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