# Templates

**Templates** in UpNote help you save time by reusing note structures you use often — such as meeting notes, journals, checklists, or project outlines. You can create a new note from a ready-made template or turn any existing note into one.

### Create your own template <a href="#id-246c" id="id-246c"></a>

To create a template from an existing note, click/tap the **`…`** button in the upper bar of your note editor and select **`Copy to Templates`**

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### View/edit templates <a href="#id-9250" id="id-9250"></a>

You can see all your templates from the Templates section in the sidebar.

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You can edit or delete your templates right from the Templates section or quickly create a new template by clicking the **`New Template`** button in the upper right corner of your UpNote window.

*Note: To keep the interface clean, the template section is not displayed if you haven’t created any templates.*

To quickly create a new note from the template, click the **`New note from this template`** button in the top bar of the template editor.

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### Create templates with custom date and time

For meeting notes or daily journals, it’s common to insert a date into your note. Simply type **`{{date}}`**, **`{{time}}`**, **`{{datetime}}`** … in the template, and when a template is selected, UpNote will automatically replace the date and time with the current time.

You can customize your date/time formats in your template with date and time tags.

If you want the date format to be like "Monday - Jan 02 2023", you can type **`{{EEEE}} - {{MM}}{{DD}} {{YYYY}}`**

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Check out [this table](https://day.js.org/docs/en/parse/string-format#list-of-all-available-parsing-tokens) for all available date and time formats.&#x20;

### Write from a template <a href="#id-0222" id="id-0222"></a>

When you create a new note, you can choose to write from the saved templates. After a template is selected, the editor will populate the template content and you can start writing right away.

Tap/click **`select from Templates`** in the new note prompt:

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Or  type **`/temp`** to insert the template anywhere in your note.

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