Better integration with Templater plugin "folder templates" functionality.

[codedpalette]

Hi, first of all, thank you for your work on this awesome plugin.
Here's my problem: I'm using Templater plugin, with "Trigger Templater or new file creation" enabled and a per-folder template configuration. When I try to trigger it with a QuickAdd, I have to duplicate path to template in QuickAdd, since template path is required. Now I have to maintain this configuration in both places, which I'd prefer not to.
When I try to create just empty file using some dummy empty file template, Templater isn't being triggered, so I'm left with just empty file.
Is there a way to tell QuickAdd "just create new file in a given directory, and let Templater handle it from here"?

[codedpalette]

For anyone who finds this in the future, I managed to solve this using Templater user scripts. Here's how to do it

1. Create a js file in a user scripts directory (for more info refer to the documentation link above)
2. Paste the following code

/**
 * Resolve the Templater template configured for a given folder, via the
 * Templater plugin's folder-template settings.
 * @param {string} folderPath - Folder path to look up, matched exactly against `folder_templates[].folder`.
 * @returns {string | undefined} The configured template path, or `undefined` if Templater is disabled or the folder has no mapping.
 */
function folderTemplate(folderPath) {
  let templater = app.plugins.plugins["templater-obsidian"];
  if (!templater) return;

  const folderTemplates = templater.settings.folder_templates;
  const templateByFolder = folderTemplates.find((t) => t.folder === folderPath);
  if (!templateByFolder) return;
  return templateByFolder.template;
}

module.exports = folderTemplate;

3. Create a new Templater file, let's call it QuickAdd.md, with the following content

<% tp.file.include("[[" + tp.user.folder_template(tp.file.folder(true)) + "]]") %>

Now if you create Template option in quickadd settings, set it's template path to QuickAdd.md and Create in folder to folder for which you have folder template configured in Templater settings, it would automatically populate.

@chhoumann would you like to add this recipe to the docs?

[chhoumann]

Thanks for coming back and writing this up so thoroughly - the script is clean and the walkthrough is easy to follow, and I appreciate you doing that for future searchers.

On adding it to the docs: I am going to pass. The docs stay focused on QuickAdd-native patterns, and this recipe is fundamentally about Templater's folder-template settings, which I don't want the docs to take a dependency on. This discussion is public and indexed, so anyone searching for QuickAdd + folder templates will land right here on your write-up.

That said, the underlying ask - pick a folder once and have the right template follow, without maintaining the mapping twice - has a fully native answer:

• One Template choice per folder (grouped under a Multi choice) keeps each folder-to-template pairing in one place.
• Or a single choice: both the folder path and the template path accept format syntax, and a shared variable prompts once and resolves in both. Set the template path to Templates/{{VALUE:Projects,People,Meetings}}.md and the create-in folder to {{VALUE:Projects,People,Meetings}} - you pick the folder once and the matching template is applied to the new note in that folder. Existing templates work as-is.

The one thing this does not cover is files created outside QuickAdd (file explorer, following an unresolved link) - QuickAdd only templates what it creates, and hooking the native creation paths is something I have deliberately decided against. For that ambient case, your recipe in this thread remains the reference.

Closing as resolved since you've answered your own question - thanks again for sharing it.