I’m Andy, and for my day job, I often need to fill out the same Word documents. This can be frustrating because it’s easy to forget to update the date in one or two places, and I end up printing the document multiple times.
As a fan of Markdown and an Obsidian user, I wanted a better solution, so I created a command-line tool as a side project.
I save my Word documents as HTML files and use variables with Jinja2 syntax in the template. For example:
Date: {{date}} {{body}}The tool allows you to provide a Markdown file with properties in Obsidian (Frontmatter metadata) and renders it as a PDF. The body keyword is reserved and renders the main content of your Markdown file.
If you struggle with a similar issue, check it out:
https://github.com/andy-verstraeten/mdexport/
I’d love to get some feedback!