Let's say I have a standard org file I want to have created multiple times. I've created a template file and told Emacs autoinsert where it is. Here's the relevant in my init (use-package autoinsert :ensure t ... :config (define-auto-insert "poolchem.org?$" "poolchem.org")) So in this template file poolchem.org I have six table skeletons, but I also want various customized additions. For example, I would like the table names to reflect the current week starting with the coming Sunday's date #+tblname: pc1-*src_emacs-lisp[:results raw]{(org-read-date nil nil "++sun" nil (org-time-string-to-time "2020-02-24"))}* which would hopefully show up in the newly created buffer as #+tblname: pc1-2020-03-01 But then nothing of the sort happens, i.e., the in-line code just comes back verbatim when I create a new file, unevaluated. I guess I'm totally missing what is going on with in-line code. It seems other methods of template creation allow code to be embedded, then to be evaluated. (The variable auto-insert-alist has entire templates.) I've experimented with eval of org-sbe in # local variables: ... but that was for running code blocks upon file open, not individual embedded functions that would customize my newly created org file. Any ideas? LB