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Templates and Placeholders

Templates are normal Markdown (.md) files. You fill them once, then create new notes from them with placeholders replaced at create time.

Set up templates

Open Settings → Space → Templates.
Choose a Template folder — the folder that holds your template .md files.
Optional: set a Default daily note template for daily notes.

Put templates in that folder like any other note. Name them so you can find them later (Meeting.md, Project brief.md).

Templates for each period

Under Settings → Space → Templates, choose separate templates for daily notes and each enabled weekly, monthly, or quarterly period. Date placeholders use the period’s starting date: Monday of the ISO week, the first day of the month, or the first day of the quarter.

Placeholders expand when Glyph creates the note. Changing a template does not rewrite existing period notes.

Create a note from a template

Run Create From Template (command palette or the matching menu action).
Pick the template.
Choose where the new note should go and finish the create flow.

Glyph writes a new .md file with placeholders expanded. The template file itself stays unchanged.

Placeholders

Write placeholders as {{name}} inside the template body (and in the title if your flow supports it).

Placeholder	Replaced with
`{{title}}`	Note title
`{{title_slug}}`	Title as a URL-safe slug
`{{file_name}}`	Full file name including `.md`
`{{file_stem}}`	File name without extension
`{{destination_path}}`	Full path of the new note
`{{destination_dir}}`	Folder path of the new note
`{{space_name}}`	Current space name
`{{date}}`	Date (human-readable)
`{{date_iso}}`	Date in ISO form
`{{time}}`	Time
`{{datetime}}`	Date and time together
`{{timestamp}}`	Timestamp value
`{{year}}`	Year
`{{month}}`	Month number
`{{month_name}}`	Full month name
`{{month_short}}`	Short month name
`{{day}}`	Day of month
`{{weekday}}`	Weekday name
`{{weekday_short}}`	Short weekday
`{{hour}}`	Hour
`{{minute}}`	Minute
`{{second}}`	Second
`{{iso_week}}`	ISO week number
`{{quarter}}`	Quarter of the year

Unknown tokens stay as written. If you type {{favorite_color}} and Glyph does not know it, the new note still shows {{favorite_color}}.

Example template

# {{title}}

Created: {{date}} ({{weekday}})
Space: {{space_name}}
Path: {{destination_path}}

## Notes

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When you create from this template with title Kickoff, Glyph fills title, date, weekday, space name, and destination path. You edit the rest in the editor.

Tips

Keep templates short. Long templates are harder to maintain.
Use {{date}} and {{weekday}} for logs and meetings.
Use {{title}} near the top so the heading matches the file name you chose.
Store project templates next to project notes, or keep a shared Templates folder for the whole space.
The default daily note template is optional. Daily notes still work without one (see Daily Notes).

Templates vs regular notes

A template is a normal .md file in your template folder. You can open it, edit it, and link to it. The special part is Create From Template, which copies content into a new note and expands {{...}} tokens once.