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What are Custom Templates in Send to Logseq?

Custom templates let you control how your captured content is formatted when saved to Logseq. With templates, you can:

• Create consistent formats for different types of content (articles, links, images, etc.)
• Automatically include metadata like dates, URLs, and tags
• Maintain uniform organization across your captures

What types of templates are available?

Send to Logseq offers four template types:

• captureArticle - For saving entire web page
• captureSelection - For saving selected text
• captureLink - For saving links
• captureImage - For saving images or screenshots

What variables can I use in templates?

You can use these variables in your templates:

How do I write a template?

Templates use simple mustache-style syntax. Here’s an example for capturing an article:

{{#captureArticle}}
  [{{title}}]({{pageUrl}})
    URL:: {{pageUrl}}
    Site:: [[{{site}}]]
    Date:: [[{{date}}]]
    Time:: {{time}}
    Tags:: #Inbox
    {{content}}
{{/captureArticle}}

This template will create a block with a link to the page and related properties. The page content will be captured as child blocks.

When capturing an article as a standalone Logseq page, use this format:

{{#captureArticle}}
  URL:: {{pageUrl}}
  Site:: [[{{site}}]]
  Date:: [[{{date}}]]
  Time:: {{time}}
  Tags:: #Inbox
  {{content}}
{{/captureArticle}}

The page title will be used to create a new Logseq page, and the above configured URL, Site, Date, Time, and Tags will be added as page properties.

What’s more, if you prefer to capture article as a page, and annotate it within the page, you can use the following format:

{{#captureArticle}}
  URL:: {{pageUrl}}
  Site:: [[{{site}}]]
  Date:: [[{{date}}]]
  Time:: {{time}}
  Tags:: #Inbox

  # Summary
    Add your summary here

  # Content
    {{content}}
{{/captureArticle}}

A H1 summary block will be created automatically, and page content will be captured as child blocks of the H1 Content block.

Important template syntax:

• Start a template section with {{#templateName}}
• End a template section with {{/templateName}}
• Insert variables using {{variableName}}
• Create Logseq page references with [[{{variableName}}]]
• Use 2-space indentation for nested blocks

Creating nested blocks

You can create nested blocks in Logseq by using indentation in your templates:

{{#captureSelection}}
  {{#todo}} TODO {{/todo}} {{content}}
    Here is my nested content
      This text was selected from {{pageUrl}}
{{/captureSelection}}

Adding TODOs to captures

Add TODO markers using the {{#todo}} helper:

{{#captureSelection}}
  {{#todo}} TODO {{/todo}} {{content}}
{{/captureSelection}}

Date formatting in templates

Date formatting follows your Logseq settings:

• The {{date}} variable automatically formatted per your preferred format in Logseq settings
• Use {{yearMonth}} for monthly pages (outputs in format like 2024-11)

Resetting templates

To restore default templates, either:

• Click the Reset to Default button in extension settings
• Leave the template field empty

Default templates

{{#captureArticle}}
  [{{title}}]({{pageUrl}})
    URL:: {{pageUrl}}
    Date:: [[{{date}}]]

    {{content}}

{{/captureArticle}}

{{#captureLink}}
  {{#todo}} TODO {{/todo}} [{{content}}]({{url}})
{{/captureLink}}

{{#captureSelection}}
  {{#todo}} TODO {{/todo}} {{content}}
{{/captureSelection}}

{{#captureImage}}
  ![{{title}}]({{url}}){{imageSize}}
  URL:: {{pageUrl}}
  Date:: [[{{date}}]]
{{/captureImage}}

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