Templates give new pages a head start. They're just pages — no special editor, no separate format.
Create a page named Template: New Page. From then on, every new page begins
as a copy of it. (Documents migrated from VoodooPad keep honoring an existing
VPNewPageTemplate page too — but if both exist, Template: New Page
wins.)
Any page named Template: Something is a reusable template — make a
Template: Meeting, a Template: Project, a Template: Person. Once you
have one, ⌘N offers a small picker — Blank, your default
New Page, and each template by name — so you choose what a new page starts as. (No
custom templates? ⌘N stays a single step, exactly as before.)
A template carries more than text: the new page inherits the template's tags, its
page type, and the values of its properties — so a Project
template can pre-set status: Active and the Project type in one go. The new page
also takes the template's format — a rich-text template makes a rich-text page.
The fastest way to make one: right-click any page in the sidebar ▸ Save as Template….
It copies that page — content, tags, type, and properties — into a new Template:
page, ready to reuse.
Not every page is born through ⌘N. Highlight text and choose Link and the
new page appears without ever asking about templates; imported pages arrive the same way. You
don't have to delete and recreate anything: stand on the page, type /template (or use
the format bar's ＋ menu), and pick one. It expands at your caret — variables
filled in with this page's name and date, placeholders ready to type over — so a page
a link created a moment ago, or one you made years back, takes a structure whenever you
decide it needs one.
These expand the moment the page is created, using your Locale & Dates settings:
| Write | Get |
|---|---|
$date$ | Jun 11, 2026 |
$time$ | 9:41 AM |
$timeDate$ | Jun 11, 2026, 9:41 AM |
$pageName$ | the new page's name |
Scriptlets run at creation too, with destination template — so a
template can compute anything a script can. See Scripting: Scriptlets.
Write <#like this#> anywhere in a template. When a page is created
from it, the first placeholder is already selected — just type. Then press
⌃/ (Edit ▸ Select Next Placeholder) to jump to the next one, type, jump,
type. A project template might read:
Project: <#name#>
Status: <#status#>
Next step: <#next step#>
Template: Daily seeds Daily Notes instead of regular pages — same variables, same placeholders. And Template: Site reskins Static Publishing. One naming convention, three template kinds.