[curt.clifton]

Jonathan,

I agree that built-in template projects would be great. In the meantime I keep my template projects inside a Template folder in OF. With the right combination of folder status and perspectives, this works really well.

I have the folder status set to Dropped, so it doesn't show in my library (unless I change the view settings). I have a separate Templates perspective which (a) opens in a new window, (b) shows All Projects according to the view bar, and (c) is focused on my Template folder. With this arrangement I can choose Perspectives --> Templates and get a separate window showing all my template projects. Otherwise, they aren't in the way.

To handle the relative dates, I use my Populate Template Placeholders script available here.