Starting from a preset

New choice in Settings → QuickAdd asks what you want to happen, not which type of choice to make. Each entry is a preset: it creates a Capture, Template, or Macro choice that is already set up for that job, and opens its settings so you can adjust it. The menu groups the presets by outcome: Add to a note, Create a note, and Automate.

Add to a note

Preset	Creates	What it starts with
Log with a timestamp	Capture	Adds - {{TIME}} {{VALUE}} under ## Log in today’s daily note. Creates the note and the heading if they are missing.
Add a task	Capture	Adds a task under ## Tasks in today’s daily note. Creates the note and the heading if they are missing.
Add to a note you pick	Capture	Asks which note each time and writes at the bottom of it.
Save the selection or clipboard	Capture	Asks which note each time and writes the text you have selected at the bottom of it. With nothing selected, it asks for the text, so paste what you copied.
Fill in a property	Capture	Asks which property of the note you are in to set, then for its value. Adds the property if the note does not have it.

Create a note

Preset	Creates	What it starts with
New note from a template	Template	Asks for a title, then creates and opens the note. Set Template to the template to use.
New note, linked from here	Template	Creates the note, puts a link to it on a new line in the note you are in (if any), and opens it.
New note of a type	Template	Asks which template to use, which folder to put the note in, and its title, then creates the note and opens it. The templates offered are the notes in your template folder: QuickAdd’s first template folder, else the Templates core plugin’s folder, else Templates/.

Automate

Preset	Creates	What it starts with
Run a script	Macro	One script step with no file yet. Click Choose file on it to pick the script. See Add a user script command.
Run a sequence of steps	Macro	No steps. Add them in the Macro builder.
Ask AI	Macro	One AI Assistant step. Offered only while Disable AI & online features is off.

Below the groups, Browse recipes… opens the Recipes gallery, ready-made workflows from these docs, and Import a package… opens the package import.

New folder is a separate button next to New choice. It adds a folder for grouping choices.

The new choice is named after the preset, for example Log, and uses the preset’s icon. Change both in its settings. It asks for all its inputs in one one-page form, as do the choices from Your first choices. A preset only fills in settings, so everything it sets can be changed later. A choice made from Log with a timestamp is an ordinary Capture choice, documented on the Capture page.

To add a choice inside a folder, unfold the folder and click its Add choice link. It offers the same presets, without the recipes and package import.

Tip

Hold Alt (⌥ on macOS) while you pick a preset to add the choice without opening its settings.

Your first choices

When the list in Settings → QuickAdd is empty, it asks What do you do in Obsidian? and offers five answers. Click the ones that fit, then click Create choices. The button counts the choices it will add.

Answer	Adds
Keep a daily journal	Log adds - {{TIME}} {{VALUE}} under ## Log, and Thought adds - {{VALUE}} under ## Thoughts, in today’s daily note.
Track tasks	Task adds a task under ## Tasks in today’s daily note. With the Tasks plugin on, it also asks for an optional due date and writes it as 📅 2026-06-14.
Meeting and people notes	Meeting note creates Meetings/{{DATE}} {{VALUE:Topic}} from a meeting template and opens it.
Collect reading and ideas	Inbox adds a line at the bottom of Inbox.md, and Save link adds a task at the bottom of Reading list.md.
Run projects	Project creates Projects/{{VALUE:Name}} from a project template, links it on a new line in the note you are in, and opens it.

The choices follow your vault:

• Daily notes. Without the Daily notes core plugin or Periodic Notes, Log, Thought, and Task write to Journal/{{DATE:YYYY-MM-DD}}.md instead of today’s daily note.
• Templates. Meeting note and Project use a note in your template folder whose name contains “meeting” or “project”. The template folder is QuickAdd’s first template folder, else the Templates core plugin’s folder, else Templates/. When there is no such note, QuickAdd creates Meeting.md or Project.md there, and the answer’s card says Adds a Meeting template.
• Missing notes and headings are created on the first run. QuickAdd never overwrites a note that exists.

Each one is an ordinary choice; change it in its settings like any other. or browse recipes under Create choices opens the Recipes gallery instead, and the quieter New choice and New folder buttons start from scratch.

The summary line

Every choice shows one line under its name that says what it does, for example Adds a line under ## Log in today’s daily note. The line appears in the settings list and in the launcher. Placeholders appear as short names in braces, so an Add to a note you pick choice that captures to Journal/{{DATE}}.md reads Adds a line at the bottom of Journal/{date}. A folder shows how many choices it holds instead.