Foam: Discussion: Create place to share Foam workspace Templates

[jsjoeio]

After my conversation with @jevakallio today, I thought it would be a good idea to create a place to share Foam workspaces setups. Ideally, it would include:

• .vscode/settings.json
• .vscode/extensions.json

This will give people inspiration for setting up their Foam workspace to optimize the environment for writing.

Discussion: where should this live in the project?

Ideas:

• Create a Recipe called Workspaces Templates which is it's own page, and people can create sub pages with links to their templates

Future:

• I don't think those need to be kept under the foambubble org, but we should have a place to showcase them

[riccardoferretti]

I like the idea, I have a slightly different setup and @jevakallio was asking me to share it, this would be a great place to do that.
I'd suggest calling the recipe Templates.

Maybe in the future templates could also be used by the CLI to create a foam project:

foam create --template <template-id>

e.g. npx foam create my-foam --template foam-template-gatsby

(somewhat similar to what https://create-react-app.dev/docs/custom-templates/ does)

[juanfrank77]

Maybe in the future templates could also be used by the CLI to create a foam project:

foam create --template <template-id>

I like this idea! it would be really cool for folks to be able to create a workspace that already has a set of configured options. and it would work with Mathieu's template and mine (and any other template that gets created in the future.)

People could have different foams optimized for different needs 😀

[jsjoeio]

I'd suggest calling the recipe Templates

Good call! I think that word suits the idea better.

People could have different foams optimized for different needs

Exactly! 😄