Allow note templates for new notes

[gabrielbdornas]

Hello @tpwo,

Fantastic job. Congratulations!

A long time ago, I used the sublime_zk Sublime Text 3 extension and it was great. Then I need to format all my computer and started to use Vscode. It makes me think in a Zettelkasten tool more agnostic, and here we are!

As I said, congratulations on the work, and maybe I could help you in the future if you need. For now, I just want to suggest a new feature. The possibility to add templates for new notes. You could see an example at the aforementioned sublime_zk extension.

The other two suggestions I've thought to give you, are already listed in the issues #22 and #15.

[tpwo]

Hi Gabriel,

I'm glad to hear that someone found and spent time with this project! The core was created a few years ago, and then I had a couple of sessions when I added new features.

Regarding the templates, I thought about it before, but then started thinking about redesigning the CLI and the overall behavior of the app, and never got back to the idea.

I just created #58 with more details on that.

Implementing templates is a topic which can be done independently, as it should interact with pyzet add command on its own, and above-mentioned #58 is a new invention.

Idea from sublime_zk is very simple, I like it.

But previously I thought about defining the whole template files with placeholders like {title} which then could be referenced in the config file. This would be a bit more complicated, as you're dealing with file paths, but should be more user-friendly, especially if you want to define a more complex template.

Regarding other suggestions, #22 looks like something which could be a part of pyzet query, so I'd probably close #58 before doing it.

#15 is a good idea, esp. for the new users who don't know the commands yet, and shouldn't be that hard, I guess.

The main problem is time, unfortunately. The development of this project slowed down this year, as I'm more busy these days.

If you'd like to help, you can see #58, and maybe even try out the version from the branch locally, and tell me if you like the changes.

From the user perspective, there is a new command pyzet query, and the rest should be unchanged, but the code was redesigned quite a bit to allow for the new feature, and I'm still not happy enough how it looks like.

Then we can decide what to do next. Thanks!

[gabrielbdornas]

Hello @tpwo, thank you for your time. I'll fork the repository and play a bit with it. Time is my big challenge as well, but why not try! 😄