Markdown first
No hidden format. Remove Templar and the note is still ordinary Markdown.
Built for better notes.
Templar helps Markdown notes gain intentional visual design without taking ownership of the writing beneath it.
Why Templar exists.
Obsidian is excellent at storing Markdown. Templar lets an individual note also feel like a journal page, study sheet, project brief, or field log — without turning presentation into a global theme.
Note-scoped design
The complete style belongs to one note and one exact rendering leaf.
Portable and self-contained
Everything needed to render the design travels in the note.
Design principles.
- 1Markdown first
- 2Note-scoped
- 3Portable
- 4Explicit writes
- 5Local & private
- 6Safe evolution
- 7Browser-platform runtime
What Templar owns.
- Visual styling rules that enhance your note.
- Note-scoped configuration under one frontmatter property.
- Safe library, preview, import, export, and synchronization workflows.
What Templar does not own.
- Your Markdown body or unrelated frontmatter.
- Your vault, global Obsidian interface, or workflow.
- An account, cloud service, analytics, or advertising system.
MIT licensed
Open source by design.
Inspect the implementation, read the contracts, report issues, or help make Templar better.