Template zettels

[srid]

I imagine we don't need a very flexible template system.

Initial proposal, to be refined:

• Templates can be added to a subdirectory, eg: ./templates/daily.md (see Revision 2 below)
• Template vars are simple strings wrapped in __ (see below)
• Have neuron new --template=daily use the specified template

Here's a sample template, ./template/daily.md:

---
date: __DATE__
tags:
  - journal
---

# __TITLE__

## Agenda today

- 

## Achieved today

Today I achieved, ...

We may even go one step ahead and support arbitrary key value pairs (neuron new --template=daily --data="key1=123"), with __KEY1__ somewhere in the template body.

[srid]

note to self: @TheMatten and I discussed some ideas on supporting general template functions (using the {{...}} syntax of #312 (comment)), and that needs to be spec'ed out one day.

[bangedorrunt]

i think we should add title in front matter. that would help much when doing grep search, current title using # might conflict with code where # is used for comment.

[srid]

@babygau title in front matter is already supported. # title is used only when you don't specify one in the front matter.

Neuron generates # title by default, however - because it is the natural choice when writing Markdown. The grep problem you mention should be resolved on its own (lexical grep?), rather than requiring front matter title (which should remain optional) simply because of grep's shortcomings.

Anyway what we are talking about is unrelated to this issue; it should be a discussion in a new issue.

[bangedorrunt]

tks u for response. i asked because i came from here (meta data) and it doesn't mention title. i also had an warning error complain about malformed data when i have title: metadata

[srid]

Guess we should document it then. As for the metadata error, try putting the title in double quotes (having to do this is yet another reason to prefer regular Markdown titles).

[srid]

Revision 2

This proposal could further be simplied. No need for a hardcoded list files; just put the templates in neuron.dhall, which also allows us to support structured templates (and then do dhall2yaml for YAML frontmatter). Consider something like dhall-text if appropriate.