link/button to make templated notes

[tashmooSS]

hey guys,
i made a dashboard i obsidian. want to create notes with certain templates for different situations which will be sent to their respective folders later. i came across quick add and although it works with hotkeys or faster ways to create notes with templates, i couldnt find a way to make smt like "idea" "work" wihch would work like buttons to create specific types of notes. is this plugin have a way of doing this that i couldnt find or is someone able to think of a workaround?

sorry if this is some simple thing that i cant figure out cuz im pretty new to obsidian and have no coding experience. learning with lots of trial&error and c/p from these forums

thanks

[PeterBeckley]

You can use Meta Bind plugin to create buttons that trigger QuickAdd macros and userscripts. I hope that helps.

[chhoumann]

Sorry for the slow reply here.

You can do this with QuickAdd alone, no coding. Make one Template choice per note type ("Idea", "Work", ...), each pointing at its template, with New note location set to In a specific folder so the note lands where you want. Then put plain markdown links on your dashboard - QuickAdd choices can be launched from a URI:

[New idea](obsidian://quickadd?choice=Idea)
[New work note](obsidian://quickadd?choice=Work)

Clicking a link runs the choice, which creates the note from the template in the configured folder. The choice= part must match the choice's name exactly, with spaces encoded as %20 (e.g. choice=New%20Idea).

Docs: https://quickadd.obsidian.guide/docs/Advanced/ObsidianUri

And Peter's Meta Bind suggestion is a good route if you want actual styled buttons: tap the lightning-bolt toggle on a QuickAdd choice and it becomes an Obsidian command, which Meta Bind buttons can trigger.