Use Templater
Run templates and set up daily notes

The original text of Templates/Simple.md used for verification is as follows. The English memo part is a fictional content for verification that does not include personal information.

# <% tp.file.title %>

created: <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm") %>
result: templater-simple-expanded

## Capture
- Sample thought from isolated verification.

1. Prepare Templates/Simple.md and open the note you want to insert it into.
2. In the command palette, select Templater: Open insert template modal, then choose Simple from the list.
3. Check the inserted heading and date. In this Normal note, tp.file.title expanded to Normal, and the time expression expanded to 2026-09-30 10:46.

result: templater-simple-expanded is a fixed character in the original text. The fact that this line is visible is not used to determine success. Check if <% … %> has been replaced with the actual value. The date and time are UTC in this Linux environment, and 19:46 in Japan time.

Replace templates in the active file, which expands Templater commands already pasted into the note, is a separate operation. A recovery example for daily notes appears in a later section.

First, I tried to configure the core Daily notes to include the template body and handle the Templater command in the body. The Templates/Daily.md used is the following original text.

# Daily <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD") %>

note-title: <% tp.file.title %>
result: templater-daily-expanded

## Inbox
- Sample daily capture.

These are the settings used in this test. Check the core Daily notes settings and the Templater settings separately.

This settings screen shows Trigger enabled and Template matching mode set to None. None does not automatically assign a template, but it processes Templater commands already present in a new note’s body. In this example, Daily notes specifies the template, so we did not add Folder templates or File regex templates.

I compared the newly made notes with the same template, date format, and Daily/2026-09-30.md.

# Daily <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD") %>

note-title: <% tp.file.title %>
result: templater-daily-expanded

## Inbox
- Sample daily capture.

# Daily 2026-09-30

note-title: 2026-09-30
result: templater-daily-expanded

## Inbox
- Sample daily capture.

Here too, result: templater-daily-expanded is fixed text present in both. The difference is that tp.date.now in the heading and tp.file.title in note-title were replaced with values.

Distinguish a note whose text was not inserted at all from a note where only the Templater expressions remain. In this OFF note, the text itself was inserted. After we turned Trigger ON and reopened the same existing note with the Daily notes command, the SHA256 of the saved content was identical before and after, and the expressions remained.

Run Templater: Replace templates in the active file with the existing note open, and I was able to expand the date and title expression. In the notes containing the record, check the contents and the code of the template, try it with a copy, and then operate. This is the result of this condition. It has not been generalized to other routes, such as the setting to open the Daily note at startup.

Templater settings alone do not cover accepting input from outside, appending from another app, or syncing between devices. This article checked template processing inside Obsidian.