Pasting a template over numerous notes at once

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What I’m trying to do

I have Obsidian to store numerous characters for a story I’m writing, with plot points and all that jazz. I made all of their notes, but then realized a template I want to paste across all of them (basic info, backstory, etc.) is going to take too much time doing it all by hand…

I’m wondering if there’s a way to instead be able to edit multiple files at once just to paste the template so it’ll save time. (For context, there’s over 100 — nearly 200 — that I need to do this for…)

Things I have tried

I’ve attempted to search for a case similar to mine, but a majority of it is embedding things, which is note what I need

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Maybe you need not to paste a template numerous times but make basic info, backstory, etc notes and then use ![[standart_note]] syntax?

In other case if you need to make little diffs from base, there is Templates and Templater plugins.

Give more info please)

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I have a basic template of age, dob, etc. that I want to paste over numerous notes and be able to edit them individually, since they’re all for different characters for a world I’m building. σ(￣、￣〃)

Using that command wouldn’t be able to make them editable, as each note has to be unique, hence me wanting to paste this info template over all of them and still be able to edit each on on their own.

I’ll look into the Template add-ons here in a bit and come back if they’ve solved my conundrum. Still would be nice to know if there’s alternatives just in case.

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If I understood your case correctly, Template is the most useful plugin in Obsidian for this. Dataview may be interesting, it will simplify syntax of your notes (possibly) and later observing (exactly). For fully automatic generating of notes you can use tools like sed, cp or echo and stream redirection, but this are command-line tools and fall outside the standard Obsidian workflow.

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I sometimes turn to Notepad++ to do a text search & replace across a whole folder of files – but unless you have a common heading or some other bit of text in every character file that could be globally replaced with a template, that won’t work here.

It’s probably possible to write a little python script or something that would whip through a set of files and paste content at a certain place… but for me, anyway, that’d take way more than the ten minutes I’d spend just hitting CTRL+V on 200 files.

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That’s great! Mark your post as solution please if already found your way to generate numerous templated notes. Obviously you will not find nothing better than manual copy-pasting or scripting to make this.