Templates

Templates are pre-formatted notes you reuse whenever you create similar content. myrna ships with a built-in gallery organized by category, and you can save your own notes as templates too. With automatic fields (tokens), the date, time and title are filled in at insertion time. This page covers the gallery, the "My templates" page, inserting a template into a note and the supported tokens.

Think of a template as a mold: the ready-made skeleton of a note (headings, lists, sections) that you reuse with a few tweaks. It is especially handy for content that repeats, such as minutes, daily logs, reports or study outlines.

Built-in gallery and "My templates"

There are two sources of templates, shown together whenever you pick one:

• The built-in gallery, with ready-made templates organized by category: Meetings, Planning, Work & Projects, Personal, Study & Knowledge, and Writing & Content — all localized to your language.
• "My templates" — the ones you saved yourself from your own notes.

The "Templates" item in the Notes sidebar opens the "My templates" page, where you manage your own collection: each card shows a preview, "Use this template" creates a new note from it (with the automatic fields already resolved and the template name as the note title), and you can delete the ones you no longer need. A button on that page opens the full built-in gallery, with a search ("Search templates…") across categories.

Insert a template

Insertion happens inside the editor: the template content is inserted into the note you are editing, at the cursor position.

1. 1In the editor, place the cursor where the template content should go.
2. 2Type "/" to open the insert menu and choose "Insert template".
3. 3Pick a template — from the built-in categories or from "My templates".
4. 4The content is inserted into the current note and the automatic fields (tokens) are resolved at that moment.

Automatic fields (tokens)

When building a template, you can include tokens — small markers between double braces that are replaced by real values as soon as the template is inserted. They respect your language and your time zone.

{{date}}

The current date at insertion time.

{{time}}

The current time at insertion time.

{{datetime}}

The current date and time, together.

{{date:FORMAT}}

The current date/time in a custom format. For example, {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}} results in something like 2026-06-28. Available pieces: YYYY, YY, MMMM, MMM, MM, M, DD, D, dddd, ddd, HH, H, mm, ss.

{{title}}

The title of the note the template is being inserted into (or, when creating a note from the "My templates" page, the template's name).

Save a note as a template

Any note you have already built can become a template, including tokens within the text for the fields that should be filled in on the next insertion.

1. 1Build the note with the structure you want to reuse (and, if you like, with the automatic field tokens).
2. 2In the notes list, open the note's context menu (right-click) and choose "Save as template".
3. 3Give the template a name so you can recognize it later.
4. 4The template now appears under "My templates", ready to be inserted into any note.