Sublime Text Frontmatter snippet for Metalsmith blog posts

frontmatter.sublime-snippet

<snippet>
  <content><![CDATA[
---
title: $1 
date: ${2:2017-04-01}
layout: post.hbs
collections: posts
draft: true
---


]]></content>
  <!-- Optional: Set a tabTrigger to define how to trigger the snippet -->
    <tabTrigger>fm</tabTrigger>
  <!-- Optional: Set a scope to limit where the snippet will trigger -->
    <scope>text.html.markdown</scope>
</snippet>

There ought to be a way to insert today's date automatically…

https://github.com/FichteFoll/InsertDate#snippet-macros