script kiddie stumbling through obsidian.nvim with a templates question.

[gallo-s-chingon]

I'm just a prose writer on Mac OS, that's dumb enough to like neovim over GUI editors.
I've got obsidian.nvim working, other than templates. What I'm trying to do is have my templates in my .config directory, which I back up on git. My issue is trying to trigger templates, I get an error Templates folder is not defined or does not exist folder DOES exist and there are various template.md files in said folder. I imagine I don't have the templates variable in the right place, or folder variable doesn't work / isn't recognized and only subdir is allowed. if the latter is the case, then I guess this is a feature request. if I can use folder and define templates dir location to be anywhere I wish how can I fix this?

return {
  'epwalsh/obsidian.nvim',
  version = '*', -- recommended, use latest release instead of latest commit
  lazy = true,
  ft = 'markdown',
  dependencies = {
    'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim',
  },
  opts = {
    workspaces = {
      {
        name = 'notes',
        path = '$HOME/Documents/notes',
        daily_notes = {
          folder = '%Y/%m/',
        },
      },
      {
        name = 'blog',
        path = '$HOME/Documents/blog/',
      },
      {
        name = 'novel',
        path = '$HOME/Documents/novel/',
        'prepend_new_note_path',
      },
    },
  },

  ui = {
    enable = true,
    update_debounce = 500,
  },

  completion = {
    nvim_cmp = true,
    min_chars = 3,
  },

  keys = {
    { '<leader>on', '<cmd>ObsidianNew<cr>', desc = 'New Obsidian note', mode = 'n' },
    { '<leader>oo', '<cmd>ObsidianSearch<cr>', desc = 'Search Obsidian notes', mode = 'n' },
    { '<leader>ob', '<cmd>ObsidianBacklinks<cr>', desc = 'Show location list of backlinks', mode = 'n' },
    { '<leader>ot', '<cmd>ObsidianTemplate<cr>', desc = 'Follow link under cursor', mode = 'n' },
  },

  templates = {
    folder = '$HOME/.config/templates',
    date_format = '%Y-%m-%d',
    time_format = '%H:%M',
  },
}

[epwalsh]

Hey @gallo-s-chingon, previously the templates folder was assumed to be relative to your vault root. However as of dbc2b0a this is now supported. If you pull the latest commit it should work for you. If not, let me know.

[gallo-s-chingon]

thanks for the reply, I'll update once I'm home and report back

[gallo-s-chingon]

@epwalsh I got obsidian.nvim updated to db41b1f chore (release) v3.7.12

still get the Templates folder is not defined or does not exist even changed $HOME to /Users/username just in case that could be the cause. so I'm guessing I have templates indented wrong / in the wrong place.

[epwalsh]

Can you post the output of :ObsidianDebug?

[gallo-s-chingon]

here's the output of :ObsidianDebug

Error executing Lua callback: ...ocal/share/nvim/lazy/obsidian.nvim/lua/obsidian/path.lua:402: FileNotFoundError: /Users/gch
ingon/Documents/podcast
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'error'
        ...ocal/share/nvim/lazy/obsidian.nvim/lua/obsidian/path.lua:402: in function 'resolve'
        ...share/nvim/lazy/obsidian.nvim/lua/obsidian/workspace.lua:79: in function 'new_from_spec'
        .../nvim/lazy/obsidian.nvim/lua/obsidian/commands/debug.lua:47: in function 'func'
        ...e/nvim/lazy/obsidian.nvim/lua/obsidian/commands/init.lua:68: in function <...e/nvim/lazy/obsidian.nvim/lua/obsidi
an/commands/init.lua:67>