Markdown front matter snippet for VSCode June 14, 2021 #jekyll #small #vscode Simple "frontmatter": { "scope": "markdown", "prefix": "frontmatter", "body": [ "---", "title: ${TM_FILENAME/(.*)\\..+$/$1/}", "desc: '${1}'", "created_at: ${CURRENT_SECONDS_UNIX}000", "updated_at: ${CURRENT_SECONDS_UNIX}000", "---", "", "" ] } With bells and whistles "blog-frontmatter": { "scope": "markdown", "prefix": "bf", "body": [ "---", "created_at: ${CURRENT_SECONDS_UNIX}000", "updated_at: ${CURRENT_SECONDS_UNIX}000", "title: ${1}", "desc: '${2}'", "layout: post", "publish_on: false", "categories: ", " - ${3:null}", "image:", " feature: ${4:null}", "titles:", " - null", "related:", " - link: null", " image: null", " title: null", " description: null", " slug: null", "objective: ${5}status quo|summary|trends and predict|original insight|solution|story", "motivation: ${6}off your chest|reason through|persuade|evangelize|show off", "hooks: ${7}context|motivation|usefulness|newness|relevance|good writing|trustworthy", "stages: ${8}intro|outline|first draft|second draft", "outline: ${9}hooks|experience|research|experiments|brainstorming|mental models|more convincing|more interesting", "sources:", " - null", "interested:", " - null", "new: ${10:0}/10,", "correct: ${11:0}/10,", "important: ${12:0}/10,", "engagement: ", " - platform: ", " votes: ", " comments: ", " views: ", "links: ", " - null", "---", "", "" ] } It should be placed in .vscode/notes.code-snippets as one of the keys. Send me an email about this post.