Text insertion template (current buffer, not new note)

[vcavallo]

🚀 The feature, motivation and pitch

Strongly related to https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim/issues/654#issue-2414260477 (as a nice followup) - once a generalized "get input from prompts to hydrate a template" is available, how about using template "fragments" to insert structured text into the current note/buffer rather than only using templates to create new notes?

Again, this is a workflow I've come to really appreciate in Obsidian, powered by QuickAdd.

The most powerful unlock of this feature is that you can pop open a command and enter some text, knowing the correct update will end up in the correct note without having to change bufffers, open a split, etc. otherwise lose context on your current work.

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Additional context

Examples of how I use the above feature in Obsidian today:

1. New Note. Prompt for:

• title of note I (optionally) use this prompt to create notes because: a template fragment inserts a:

- New note created (<timestamp>): <note title>

In my daily note for that day. This way new notes automatically end up with a backlink to the day they were authored.

2. Capture "thing I did". Prompt for:

• what did you do? This action inserts a similar bullet as above with <timestamp> thing I did: <template text> into that day's daily note. This is nice for quickly logging little journal-like items without opening up your daily note and writing out a timestamp.

There are some others but I think the point is made.

If you look back to the linked issue at the top, each of those multi-step templates are actually triggered by the style of command I'm describing here and each is logged to my current daily note as mentioned above.

This is a daily-note-centric approach to how I happen to use these features. But with prompting templates + the ability to insert structured text fragments into other notes, arbitrary powerful custom workflows can be created fairly easily.