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https://github.com/Rainbell129/Obsidian-Homepage
https://www.linkingyourthinking.com/download-lyt-kit
Obsidian supports templates as a way to standardize note creation and reduce friction in knowledge management workflows. The built-in Templates core plugin allows users to define reusable note structures with placeholder variables (such as date, time, and title), which can be inserted into new notes with a single command. For more advanced needs, the community-built Templater plugin extends this with dynamic scripting, conditional logic, and the ability to pull data from external sources at creation time.
The two resources above represent different approaches to structuring an Obsidian vault. The Obsidian Homepage project provides a dashboard-style landing page template, giving users a central hub to navigate their vault. The LYT Kit (Linking Your Thinking) by Nick Milo offers a pre-built vault structure organized around Maps of Content (MOCs), which serve as higher-order notes that link to and contextualize clusters of related ideas. Both illustrate how templates and starter kits can dramatically accelerate the setup of a personal knowledge management system.
The Obsidian community shares hundreds of templates, themes, and starter vaults through GitHub and the Obsidian forum. These range from simple daily note templates to complex project management systems, academic research workflows, and journaling frameworks. Templates are particularly valuable because they encode best practices into reusable structures, helping new users benefit from the hard-won organizational insights of experienced practitioners.