I can't believe I didn't start using Obsidian's Templater plugin sooner
Obsidian's Templater plugin is a game-changer.

When I first downloaded Obsidian, I spent a not-insubstantial amount of time poking through the different plugins available to me. I downloaded Templater based on the recommendation of others, but I brushed it off. After all, a template plugin couldn't be all that useful, right? Obsidian already had one built-in. In some ways, I was right; the core Template plugin is powerful by itself and is capable of doing quite a bit on its own.