Templates
A template is a reusable note scaffold you insert into a note — with placeholders such as the date or title filled in for you — so notes of the same kind always start with the same structure.
If you write the same shape of note over and over — meeting notes, a book summary, a project brief, a daily log — a template captures that shape once so you never rebuild it by hand.
Create a template
Write the scaffold
Make a note that contains the structure you want to reuse: headings, sections, a properties block, prompts, boilerplate. Keep it in your templates location.
Add placeholders
Include placeholders for values that should fill in automatically when the template is used — like the current date or the new note's title — so each use is pre-populated.
Reuse it
In a new (or existing) note, insert the template. Altretta drops in the scaffold and resolves the placeholders.
What templates are good for
- Consistency — every meeting note, review, or brief has the same sections in the same order.
- Speed — start from structure instead of a blank page.
- Capture that files itself — a template can include the properties (status, type, date) that make a note show up correctly in your Bases.
Templates and daily notes are made for each other: set a daily-note template and every day opens with your journaling prompt, tasks section, and log heading already in place, dated automatically.
Related
Organizing your vault
The overview: files, search, bookmarks, daily notes, Bases, and Maps & Manuals.
Daily notes
Apply a template automatically to each daily, weekly, and monthly note.
Bases: tables & cards
Turn the properties your templates set into filterable, sortable views.
Tags & properties
The frontmatter a template pre-populates so every note starts structured.
Glossary
Template, placeholder, frontmatter, property — defined.