Templates

Templates give you a head start on common page structures. AuroraDocs ships a gallery of built-in templates and lets you turn any object into a reusable template or snippet.

Template gallery

Navigate to /templates (or click Templates in the sidebar) to open the gallery. It shows four sections:

Section	Source
My snippets	Objects you've saved as snippets (block-level reusable content)
My templates	Objects you've marked as templates
Built-in object templates	Starter templates for each built-in object type
Community templates	10 curated templates grouped by category

Built-in gallery templates

Template	Default type	Category
Meeting notes	Page	Work
Weekly review	Page	Productivity
Project plan	Page	Work
Book notes	Page	Learning
Daily standup	Note	Work
Habit tracker	Note	Personal
Brainstorm	Page	Productivity
OKR — Objectives & key results	Page	Work
Language learning	Page	Learning
Travel planner	Page	Personal

Use the category pills at the top to filter, and the type switcher to change which object type a template creates.

Built-in object type templates

Each built-in object type can have a starter template that pre-fills a useful structure:

• Person profile, Meeting note, Trip planner, Project brief, Image reference, Quote card, Saved link, Backlog item, Habit, Transaction

These appear automatically when the object type is visible in your workspace.

Using a template

Every template card has two actions:

• Create — creates a brand-new object with the template's content and navigates to it.
• Insert here — pastes the template content into the page you're currently editing. If the editor is empty it replaces the content; otherwise it appends.

Empty page suggestion

When you open an empty page, Aurora shows a dashed-border banner with a See templates button. It takes you to the gallery with the current page pre-selected — clicking Insert here on any template sends the content straight back into your page.

Sidebar quick-create

If you've created templates for a particular object type, clicking the + button on that sidebar section shows a picker with Blank and each of your templates. Without templates, + creates a blank object directly.

Templates also appear in the command palette (⌘K) — search for a template name and select it to create a new object from it.

Creating your own templates

Mark any object as a template

1. Open the object.
2. Click the ··· overflow menu.
3. Choose Mark as template.

The object now appears in the sidebar's Templates section and in the gallery under My templates. Repeat the process and choose Remove as template to un-mark it.

Save blocks as a snippet

Snippets are smaller — a piece of content you want to reuse without creating a full page structure.

1. Hover the floating block handle on the left of any block (or long-press on mobile).
2. Click Save as snippet.
3. Name the snippet in the dialog.

Aurora creates a new note-type object with the selected content, marks it as a template, and tags it as a snippet. It appears in the gallery under My snippets.

Tips

• Start with the built-in gallery templates — they cover the most common patterns.
• Turn meeting notes or project briefs into templates once you have a structure you like.
• Use snippets for smaller reusable blocks like standard disclaimers, table structures, or checklists.
• Templates are normal objects — you can edit them at any time and future uses will pick up the changes.