Hey! I love this suggestion 😄

Would it be sufficient to simply say that you want a front-matter title as well when generating new daily pages? Or would you want to be able to specify the entire front-matter block? I just ask because I could probably add a setting to allow generating a front-matter section for new page, that simply auto-generated the title based on the date. But if you'd want to also add other content to the template, than we'd probably need another, more generic solution.

I would personally be more than happy with the first suggestion of generating a front-matter section with a title based on the date via a toggleable setting. This would make it practically frictionless to add new posts for my particular use case.

It would also be good to have a more generic solution, but this may be a bit more complex.

For instance, Docusaurus's example post has 9 separate fields:

---
title: Welcome Docusaurus v2
author: Joel Marcey
author_title: Co-creator of Docusaurus 1
author_url: https://github.com/JoelMarcey
author_image_url: https://graph.facebook.com/611217057/picture/?height=200&width=200
tags: [hello, docusaurus-v2]
description: This is my first post on Docusaurus 2.
image: https://i.imgur.com/mErPwqL.png
hide_table_of_contents: false
---

Granted, it would be convenient to have certain static fields like author, author_url, author_image_url, and hide_table_of_contents automatically filled out for you when making a new post.

The generic solution would probably be more valuable to users that are making posts for a website with multiple writers or if there were repeating metadata when making new posts.

But again, it would be great to have the non-generic solution as well.

I wonder if it would make sense to allow adding a DAILY_TEMPLATE.md file to the repo, and specify whatever content you want in there. Then, whenever you create a new daily page, it would auto-populate the file with the contents from that template file.

In order to parameterize it, the template could support mustache placeholders (e.g. {{foo}}) that would be rendered properly whenever a page was created from it. To start, we could support a {{title}} placeholder, but we could add more over time. The nice thing about this solution, is that it would allow you to define the front-matter you want, but would also be quite a bit more flexible (and also interoperable with other note-taking solutions). It would also be similar to how GitHub enables issue/PR templates. Thoughts?

Example DAILY_TEMPLATE.md

---
title: {{title}}
author: Joel Marcey
author_title: Co-creator of Docusaurus 1
author_url: https://github.com/JoelMarcey
author_image_url: https://graph.facebook.com/611217057/picture/?height=200&width=200
tags: [hello, docusaurus-v2]
description: This is my first post on Docusaurus 2.
image: https://i.imgur.com/mErPwqL.png
hide_table_of_contents: false
---

That sounds great, pretty much exactly what I would would want as a user, especially if the feature gains the ability to also add more mustache placeholders over time.

I feel like the solution is also flexible enough to cover a large amount of use cases, minimizing a lot of redundant busywork with the click of a button.