Shell Script for Creating Markdown Templates

For my Next.js blog I want to be able to create notes quickly. I've setup a shell script (bash, zsh, etc) to quickly create a markdown file prepopulated with basic content I pass in as parameters.

A couple notes regarding what you are about to read

gn is short for gatlin-note, and gatlin is the name of the (private) repo.
~/w/g/gatlin is the location of the repo on my local machine.
content/notes/*.md is where I keep my markdown notes files.
I parse yaml metadata located at the top of my markdown files.
After prepopulating the Markdown file, I open it up immediately in vim to make edits quickly.
If you are going to rip parts of this function, note that I have only used this script in zsh.
Example usage:
```
gn "New Note" new-note
```

function gn() {
  cd ~/w/g/gatlin
  local filename="./content/notes/$2.md"
  local datestring="$(date +%F)"
  touch $filename
  cat << DELIMIT > $filename
---
title: $1
slug: $2
published: $datestring
updated: $datestring
---

# $1

DELIMIT

  vim $filename
}