Dann Berg's People Template for Obsidian. Uses Dataview & Templater plugins. Should be saved as a Markdown file in Obsidian. See full tutorial for setup instructions: https://dannb.org/blog/2022/obsidian-people-note-template/

obsidian-people-template.txt

---
company: 
location: 
title: 
email: 
website: 
aliases: 
---
tags:: [[👥 People MOC]]

# [[<% tp.file.title %>]]
<% await tp.file.move("/Extras/People/" + tp.file.title) %>

## Notes
- 

## Meetings
```dataview
TABLE file.cday as Created, summary AS "Summary"
FROM "Timestamps/Meetings" where contains(file.outlinks, [[]])
SORT file.cday DESC
```

Is there any way to dataview search for aliases instead of title?

Thank you for this!

Is there a way to sort the People Notes by Company name in the folder structure?

Thank you for this!

Is there a way to sort the People Notes by Company name in the folder structure?

@dm7500 If you name the file names to start with [Company name] then they will sort alphabetically in the directories. However, this can also be done inside a note using the Dataview plugin. As long as company name is in the YAML of each note, you can modify a dataview table to SORT by company name.

Thank you -- a newcomer to Obsidian, and your templates have been awesome.
I'm having trouble with the people template, as the template itself gets automatically moved to my People folder instead of staying in the Templates folder. Any suggestions?

@high5rise At what point is the Template itself moving to the People folder? This can happen if you're running the "Replace templates in the active file" function from the Templater plugin while the Template file is active. But if you've created a NEW page using the Template file, and then run the function on the new page, then the Template file shouldn't be impacted.

Ah, that solved the issue: I didn't have the "Trigger Templator on new file creation" option toggled on. Instead, I had put in the template in the Startup Template field, which was causing the move issue at startup of Obsidian. Should have followed the instructions! =) Thanks, @dannberg

Hey @dannberg I wanted to build upon this template with slightly different use case. So what I want to do is as follows

1. Create note from template and provide the person's name as title.
2. Then I want to move the note to my People Notes folder by appending the current date to the existing file title.
3. Then refer to the name portion of the file title in different sections of the template

# [[<% tp.file.title %>]]
<% await tp.file.move("/People Notes/" + tp.file.title + "--" + tp.date.now()) %>


## Discussed Items:
- <% tp.file.cursor() %>

## Action Items

- ### For me
	- 
- ## For [[<% tp.file.title.split("--")[0] %>]]
	- <>

However this does not seem to work because the file move operation happens immediately when I create the note and entering the title removes the data from it and even if I don't remove the date, the tp.file.title does not give the title with date. I know this might not be trivial but is there a way to achieve this ? I am pretty new to Obsidian so maybe I am missing something very obvious here.