Templates

Starting from a template

When you create a new note or notebook in your Library, choose Start from a template instead of a blank page. The picker shows your own templates first, then the KinSwitch catalogue grouped by category. A search box narrows the list, and the All / Notes / Notebooks / Mine tabs filter by kind — "Mine" holds the templates you've saved or copied.

Pick one and you'll get a short form for its fill-in fields; apply, and the finished note or notebook opens in the editor like anything you'd written by hand — encrypted at rest and in transit, and yours to edit from there.

Fill-in fields with {{Variables}}

A template marks a fill-in spot by wrapping a label in double curly braces. The label is the field: {{Emergency Contact Name}} shows up at apply time as a form field called Emergency Contact Name, and whatever you type replaces the token everywhere it appears — in the title and the body alike. There's nothing to define ahead of time; writing the token creates the field.

Leave a field blank and the token stays visibly in place in the finished note, so an empty spot reads as an obvious placeholder to come back to — never a silently broken sentence.

Automatic date and time stamps

Three tokens fill themselves in and never ask: {{Date}}, {{Time}}, and {{Datetime}} (any capitalization). They're stamped at the moment you apply the template, in your own timezone, in the same style the rest of your Library uses — "May 30, 2026", "3:42 PM", and "May 30, 2026 · 3:42 PM".

Only those exact labels are automatic. {{Date of Birth}} is an ordinary fill-in field like any other.

Notebook templates

A notebook template scaffolds the whole thing in one step: the notebook itself plus each of its entries, in order, with your fill-in values substituted throughout. Every entry starts dated today — a template entry is "about" the day you start it — and the dates stay editable afterward, like any notebook or journal entry .

Saving your own templates

Any note or notebook you've written can become a template: open it and choose Save as template, give it a name, and it appears in the picker's Mine tab from then on. Any {{Variable}} tokens in the text survive exactly as written, so a saved template keeps its fill-in spots.

• Copy to My Templates forks a catalogue template into your own list, so you can tailor the wording to your family and keep your version.
• Rename and delete your templates right in the picker — deleting a template never touches the notes or notebooks you created from it.

Your templates are part of your account's data: encrypted at rest and in transit, and visible only to you.