I think the way to go is creating the file with VSCode API (or by directly accessing the file system) anyway, and adding your own frontmatter. The requirements are light, you need to generate some random string for the

id

and add the

title

,

created

and

updated

fields. The other option is calling the "Note Lookup" command programatically to create a note, but it looks like it's not possible to fully automate that. You could prefill the initial value in the lookup and change lookup settings, but that's about it: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/blob/master/packages/plugin-core/src/commands/NoteLookupCommand.ts#L73 (For the second option, docs on executing a command from the API are here: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/vscode-api#commands)