Starting out with templates and scripts I was always wary of using QuickAdd. I didn’t find the steps to go through intuitive enough. Do I have to create macro twice, etc.
I stuck with Templater. If it was absolutely necessary or if I was copying a trick from someone, I added it to my QuickAdd.
Now for the non-template jobs I have first moved over to User Plugins and then CodeScript Toolkit.
I can fire anything anywhere and don’t have to deal with the annoying duplications of what Templater makes to the commands: 40 scripts and 10 templates times 2 (Insert and Create) = 100 commands. Now I’m back to 10 templates or so 40 scripts added to CodeScript.
The importing and referencing of modules and whatnot is a bit tricky when one is first starting out with Typescript, but I like how all my scripts are now in one plugin and based on the 40 scripts I have, I can make a new one next time I’d need one. Templater is now solely for note generation and all other scripts are handled by CodeScript. No more straining on the eyes looking for a script which ought to start with ‘Insert’.
The good thing about making the change is that the transition is almost seamless and almost all the ideas one could get as a user came through people who used and shared Templater scripts (rarely Quickadd). I don’t think I could ever think to myself: let’s make a typescript script that would achieve this and that custom functionality…
I understand the thread is more about Templater being preferred for note generation through templates, but I am merely pointing out that overdoing Templater for everything in the long run can cause problems (mainly the duplications of commands that I don’t like).
Interactivity can do it as well. Using with Python on PC and Js on iPad. You type in the note and get the response printed back into the note with context awareness. (No stream, though, but that doesn’t matter.)