QuickAdd - Cursor at Start of Note After Templater Runs (Works Manually)

[wanageeska]

Howdy Gang,

I'm very new to Obsidian and its plugins so I apologise for my ignorance.

I'm having a cursor placement issue with QuickAdd and Templater for my daily notes.

Problem:

When creating a daily note via a QuickAdd "Template Choice", the cursor ends up at the start of the file. However, if I manually insert the same Templater template into a blank note, the cursor correctly defaults to the end of the inserted content (specifically, after an "Activity Log" timestamp line).

This means the Templater script itself is working correctly regarding content and default cursor placement when run in isolation. The issue appears when QuickAdd orchestrates the process.

Key Findings:

• Templater Script: Contains NO explicit tp.file.cursor() commands (neither embedded nor standalone). It relies on Templater's default end-of-content cursor placement.
• Manual Templater Run: Works perfectly – cursor at the desired end position.
• QuickAdd Templater Run: Cursor consistently at the top of the file.
• Previous Debugging: Attempts to use embedded <% tp.file.cursor() %> in Templater caused parsing errors, so that's not a viable fix. Standalone tp.file.cursor(); in Templater resulted in a different, incorrect cursor position.

Question:

Could QuickAdd be performing an action after Templater finishes (like a file rename that refocuses the view, or an explicit "move cursor to start" command) that overrides where Templater naturally leaves the cursor?

My QuickAdd "Choice" Setup:

• Type: Template Choice
• Filename Format: {{DATE:YYYY-MM-DD}} - Daily Log
• "Run Templater after creation": Enabled
• No custom scripts in "Editor Callback" or other obvious post-actions configured by me.

Am I using QuickAdd correctly?

Any insight into QuickAdd's order of operations or settings that might influence the final cursor position after a Templater template is processed would be very helpful. Is there a way to preserve Templater's default cursor position?

Any clarity on this would be enormously appreciated! I've spent half the day working on a cursor!

Thanks!
-w

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Files for context:
daily-note-template.md
20250520 - Daily Log.md

[wanageeska]

Hi everyone,

Quick follow-up to my original post about cursor placement with QuickAdd and Templater for daily notes.

I've done some further testing and have a key new finding:

My daily note Templater script (which has no explicit cursor commands) now works perfectly when run manually via the Templater plugin – the cursor correctly defaults to the end of my "Activity Log" timestamp line.
However, the issue of the cursor being placed at the top of the file persists when the note creation is initiated by QuickAdd.

New Finding
I set up a two-step QuickAdd Macro:
Step 1: Runs my main daily note Templater template (which, on its own, would leave the cursor correctly).
Step 2: Runs a QuickAdd "Capture" choice that is configured to append a new timestamp line to the bottom of the active file.
Even after this two-step macro completes, where the very last action is an append operation, the final cursor position is still at the very top of the document, not at the end of the appended text.
This new finding makes me suspect that QuickAdd itself might be performing a final cursor repositioning to the start of the file after all actions in a choice or macro are complete.

Has anyone else experienced this, or does anyone know if there's a QuickAdd setting that controls this final cursor state, or if this might be the default behavior after a QuickAdd process finishes?

Thanks!

[chhoumann]

Coming back to this one late - sorry about that.

Your suspicion was correct: at the time, QuickAdd was doing things after opening the note that left the cursor at the top. Both of the behaviors you documented have since been fixed:

• 2.9.2 made the Templater integration deterministic. After a Template choice creates and opens the note, QuickAdd now hands cursor placement over to Templater instead of stomping it, so Templater's cursor jump works. If your template has no explicit cursor marker at all, placement depends on what Templater itself does in that case, so if you still see the cursor at the top after updating, please open an issue with the template attached and I'll dig in.
• 2.14.0 fixed your two-step macro finding: a Capture that appends to the active file now leaves the cursor right after the inserted text instead of at the top.

One more thing worth mentioning: the daily-log flow you attached doesn't actually need Templater. A Template choice using QuickAdd's own format syntax ({{DATE:YYYY-MM-DD}} etc. work inside the template file too), plus a Capture choice that appends - {{TIME}} {{VALUE}}, gives you the same result - and the capture leaves the cursor at the end of the appended line.

Docs on the format syntax: https://quickadd.obsidian.guide/docs/FormatSyntax

Closing as resolved since both reported behaviors are fixed - but do report back if the no-cursor-marker case still misbehaves for you.