Templater: Wait for Title until Note is Named

[fpiep02]

Things I have tried

<%* let title = tp.file.title

if (title.startsWith(“Untitled”))

{title = await tp.system.prompt(“Title”);

await tp.file.rename(${title});} tR += “—”

%>

# <% tR += ${title} %>*

which I found in this forum, but it doesn’t work for me… any ideas?

What I’m trying to do

When I have tp.file.title elemts in my page then they are all “Untitles” by default, when I create a new note, because initially that’s the title, makes sense, but when I rename the page it doesn’t change. I want to be able to have the titles in my templates change when I change the title so that I don’t have to retype it everytime where instead of the title there is an “Untitled”.

[I-d-as]

You could try the Obsidian Filename Heading Sync Plugin. There might even be another plugin that also does this, but I’m not sure. Here’s a link to a post that is very relevant and that links to the GitHub page: Plugin for keeping the filename and first heading of a file in sync

Good luck!

[I-d-as]

There appears to be an issue with that Templater script: https://github.com/SilentVoid13/Templater/issues/636#issue-1231624729

I’m not sure it is resolved yet, but the plugin may otherwise work fine. I hope you can get it working.