🧩 Templating plugin for Noteplan

Here’s a grouped release announcement message summarizing the new features and improvements in the latest Templating plugin updates (v2.0.0–2.0.8), leaving out bug fixes:

🆕 Templating Plugin v2.0.x — Major Features & Enhancements

We’re excited to announce a major series of updates to the Templating plugin, packed with powerful new features, workflow enhancements, and developer tools. Here’s what’s new:

📄 Template Note Creation & Insertion

You can now use InsertTemplate or AppendTemplate to:
- 🆕 Automatically create a new note in the specified folder when used on a blank note.
- 📁 Prompt to move the current note to the target folder if it's not blank.
Support for newNoteTitle argument and JSON vars for better Shortcuts integration.
templateAppend command improvements for easier testing.

🧠 Smarter & More Flexible Template Tags

New tag functions:
- getValuesForKey: retrieve all values for a specific frontmatter key.
- promptKey: interactive user prompts with folder filtering.
- getNote: fetch notes by title, filename, or ID.
<select XXX> now allows for folder selection from filtered list.
Support for adding properties with --- block in templates.

📅 Date & Time Enhancements

date.daysUntil added.
formattedDateTime now supports both strftime and moment.js.
now works correctly with offsetDays.
date8601 bug fixed.
Updated to match NotePlan’s week numbering and week start settings.

🧾 Note & Task Utilities

New functions in NoteModule:
- note.currentNote()
- note.getRandomLine()
- openTasks, completedTasks, openChecklists, completedChecklists
Added eventDate and eventEndDate for use with Meeting Notes.
Stoic quotes, Bible verses, journaling questions now available in web.services.

🌐 Web Services Enhancements

web.services now globally accessible with automatic await.
Improved timeout messages for advice, verse, quote, and weather services.

🔗 Documentation

All plugin documentation links now point to the new documentation site.

Thanks to everyone who submitted feature requests, especially @jgclark and Tim Shaker! As always, feedback is welcome.

Templating is a template language plugin for NotePlan that lets you insert variables and method results into your notes. It will also let you execute custom JavaScript constructed in the templates providing a rich note taking system.

Documentation

📖 This README provides a quick overview of Templating, visit Templating website for comprehensive documention.

NOTE: Start Here: Templating Documentation

Commands

All commands can be invoked using the NotePlan Command Bar (Command-J then /) which NotePlan has reserved for plugin activation. Or by selecting 🧩 Templating from the Plugins menu)

Once the command bar is displayed, you can continue typing any of the following commands to invoke the appropriate plugin command. In some case where specifically noted, you can alternately invoke the plugin command at the current insertion pointer within your document.

📖 Visit Templating website for comprehensive documention

Command	Available Inline	Description
np:append	Yes	Appends selected template at end of current note (will show list of all available templates)
np:insert	Yes	Insert selected template at cursor (will show list of all available templates)
np:invoke	Yes	Invoke Template Command, using `location` key in template to determine injected template
		contents into current
np:new	Yes	Creates a new note from selected template and supplied note name
np:qtn	Yes	Invokes Quick Note Generation (displays list of all `type: quick-note`)
np:update	Yes	Invokes settings update method
np:version	Yes	Displays current Templating version