Difficulty to crete a Markdown template with YAML header

DEVONthink Automation
1

Hello all,
I am trying to create a template for a markdown note with a YAML header that I would like to partially populate using DT place holders for some items (date etc), and manually for others.

Unfortunately, when I create a note using this template, I can only see a pretty ugly version with only the last elements of the header and the place holders are not used by DT.
I am new to YAML and MD and to automatisation in DT, and am doing something stupid surely, and I would like your help.

My template called templateMD-YAML.md in the Templates.noindex folder contains the following header :
`—
id: Z%Year%%Month%%Day%%Hour%%Minute%%Second%
title:
author: %Predefined Author%
keywords:

  • kw1
  • kw2
    `…

(Note: backticks are not in the template but if I do not put them here, the YAML marker is deleted by this interface)

2

Placeholders are case sensitive and can be inserted via the contextual menu, a valid version would look like this:

id: Z%year%%month%%day%%hour%%minute%%second%
title:
author: %author%
3

Thank you very much! I was just coming back here to say that the placeholders I have seen in the PDF manual are different from the ones given in the included help. Indeed, if I use the ones you propose, they are recognized by DT and my template works better. I get a unique id as suggested by Zettler for Zettenkasten functionality. Nice, nice! :slight_smile:

4

the placeholders I have seen in the PDF manual are different from the ones given in the included help.

Where are you seeing this?
Could you post screen captures?
Thanks.