Adding PDF templates

[wemathis]

Hi I use an iPad. I'm using the Native Markup. I created a template I want to use. However, I don't understand the directions in the plugin options. Under "Templates" the instructions read: "You can use any PDF as a template for the notes. Just add it to the templates folder and it will appear here." Then you provide what I assume is file path for the templates folder:

.obsidian/plugins/handwritten-notes/templates/

How do I find that folder?

I'm new to obsidian and markdown. Any help you can offer would be great.

[YaroKasear]

Ditto for Android. I can't find any way to get templates in here.

[thammawat-s]

For my setup, I sync obsidian vault with my PC, so I can browse using my PC to the template folder and add files there. and after a sync, I can see my custom templates shown in plug-in setting page on my ipad.

• my vault.obsidian.mobile\plugins\handwritten-notes\templates (for mobile)
• my vault.obsidian\plugins\handwritten-notes\templates (for desktop)

[avigilante]

@FBarrca - First, I LOVE your plugin, and it's one of a handful that I could not live without! Thanks for creating it!

One suggestion:

• By design, Obsidian Sync only syncs manifest.json, main.js, styles.css and data.json in the plugin folder; all other files in the plugin folder are not synced. So, if anyone is using Obsidian Sync (like me), your plugin Templates will not sync across devices, and given it's (almost) impossible to manually add templates on the iOS in a hidden folder, they're stuck with the Blank.pdf template.

• Maybe a solution could be to have an option in your plugin to select a template folder (as opposed to being hardcoded to the one within the plugin folder)?

[patrickweindl]

Loving this plugin as well, as it creates a much more seamless experience on iPadOS (through using MarkUp in my case) than for example Excalidraw.

I've had the same issue of not being able to pass on any templates to the iPad however - subfolders of the plugin folder ./obsidian/plugins/handwritten-notes/templates do not get synced by Obsidian sync.

In case anyone else has that issue, you can use the following workaround (requires a PC/Mac, where the .obsidian folder can be accessed):

• Open file .obsidian/plugins/handwritten-notes/main.js
• Replace all occurences of "this.plugin.manifest.dir + TEMPLATE_DIR" with "TEMPLATE_DIR"
• In line 40 (currently) replace const TEMPLATE_DIR with the folder of your choice (in my case "/Templates/HandwritingTemplates" Edit: - also replace ${this.manifest.dir}/${TEMPLATE_DIR}/${templateName} with ${TEMPLATE_DIR}/${templateName} otherwise it won't find the template on PDF creation

This makes the plugin read templates from there and therefore from a folder which actually get's synced to the iPad as well.

[FBarrca]

Hello everyone! Just wanted to let you all know that the latest release, 1.3.6 , should have added the custom template folder functionality that you are looking for. You can set a custom folder in the settings. I myself am a user of Obsidian Sync and I've not had any issues (unless they have changed something on their end recently), I just do as @thammawat-s.