Markdown Note & Meeting Templates
Curated, battle-tested plain-text templates for engineering teams, researchers, and knowledge workers on macOS.
Every template is structured in standard UTF-8 Markdown with YAML frontmatter, Obsidian-style callouts, task tracking checkboxes, and bidirectional wikilinks. Download individual files or copy them directly into your vault.
Team Meetings & Governance
34 templatesStructured records for board meetings, leadership syncs, architecture reviews, and emergency war rooms.
1-on-1s & Mentorship
34 templatesCollaborative agendas and recurring logs for manager-direct syncs, career growth, skip-levels, and coaching.
Standups, Sprints & Retrospectives
34 templatesAgile ceremony logs for daily standups, sprint planning, blameless retrospectives, and incident post-mortems.
Sales, Discovery & Client Calls
34 templatesHigh-signal qualification frameworks (MEDDPICC), technical demo briefs, client kickoff docs, and QBRs.
Candidate Interviews & Debriefs
33 templatesConsistent interview rubrics, technical screening scorecards, behavioral evaluations, and hiring committee debriefs.
User Research & Discovery
33 templatesObservational inquiry notes, semi-structured customer interviews, usability test protocols, and heuristic audits.
Lectures, Seminars & Literature
33 templatesCornell note systems, peer-reviewed paper syntheses, doctoral supervision logs, and legal case briefs.
Daily Notes, Planning & Logbooks
33 templatesMorning priority planners, evening reflection rituals, time-blocking schedules, and developer work logs.
Project Kickoffs, PRDs & Milestones
33 templatesLean PRDs, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), engineering RFCs, project charters, and launch checklists.
Outlines, Articles & Essays
33 templatesLong-form editorial pillar outlines, technical white papers, customer case studies, and book chapter scaffolds.
Zettelkasten, PARA & Maps of Content
33 templatesAtomic permanent notes, literature extraction slips, PARA project hubs, and topic Maps of Content (MOC).
Habits, Health & Travel Plans
33 templatesAnnual life reviews, weekly personal planning, habit streak ledgers, travel itineraries, and net worth audits.
The Anatomy of a Sovereign Markdown Template
Unlike proprietary cloud notetakers that lock your thoughts into proprietary JSON blocks or database records, templates designed for Oyma and Obsidian rely on open standards that will remain readable decades from now.
1. YAML Frontmatter
Standardized metadata at the top of the file containing title, creation date, attendees, tags, and status. Indexed automatically by local SQLite FTS5 search engines.
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title: "Quarterly Business Review"
date: 2026-10-09
attendees: ["[[Sarah Chen]]", "[[Alex Rivera]]"]
status: complete
tags: [qbr, enterprise, client]
---2. Callout Blocks
GitHub and Obsidian flavored callouts for highlighted warnings, decisions, action items, and executive summaries that render cleanly in live-preview mode.
> [!NOTE] Strategic Priority
> Core infrastructure migration scheduled for Q1.
>
> [!IMPORTANT] Decision
> Approved 100% on-device inference architecture.3. Bidirectional [[WikiLinks]]
Links that bind people, projects, and concepts together without fragile URL paths. Renaming a target document automatically preserves references.
Discussed [[Project Titan]] roadmap with [[Sarah Chen]].
Refer to [[Architecture Decision Record 0042]] for details.4. Interactive Task Checkboxes
Standard CommonMark task items that allow checking off action items directly in the live editor or tracking them via automated vault queries.
- [x] Audit network egress using Little Snitch
- [ ] Export quarterly financial summary to PDF
- [ ] Schedule follow-up design critique
Build your second brain in plain Markdown.
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