Why Templater is not triggered when using iOS “Share with Obsidian”

[AlfonsoRReyes]

I use Obsidian a lot in my iPad to save notes of interest that I find in the web, and more specifically papers.

The only problem that I have is that Templater doesn’t know I am in iOS when using the “Share” button to save the internet page to a note. It just creates a blank note -no frontmatter at all -, and pastes the link, or image, that I want to save to Obsidian.

Templater works well in the iPad if I create the note from within Obsidian. But I want to save the extra typing of frontmatter when I use the “Share” button of iOS.

Any thoughts?

[Zachatoo]

When a file is created with content, Templater will not check your folder templates. Otherwise it would override whatever it is that you wanted to share. The file must be empty for Templater to pick it up and process it. How would Templater know where you intended the shared content to placed in context of the template? There isn't a way to define that today.