Templates, Markdown, and Frontmatter

When you are creating documents over and over again, whether it be a document, blog post or configuration files, by copying an old one and deleting/updating the old contents. That's a very error prone process, from getting the file naming, and location right, to ensuring consistent formating throughout. Wouldn't it be great if there was a repeatable generation process for any text file? Well that's what templates are for, they can eliminate friction and ensure consistency across everything you write. Also wouldn't it be great if there was a easy going file format for content creation, that wasn't too complex, with just enough syntax to write basic documents. And wouldn't it be great if there was a way to attach arbitrary meta data to these documents which you could use in all sorts of interesting ways, including seamlessly flowing them through LLMs/AI? Well that's what Markdown and Frontmatter are for. We are going to look at all 3 of these things. Templates First let's demystify…