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Pluck shipped with six built-in templates. Sprint retro, NPS, customer feedback, the usual suspects. They're fine. They get you started. But nobody's org runs sprint retros exactly like mine, and mine doesn't run them exactly like yours.
The first feature request I got (by email, from someone who had three forms already) was: “can I save one of my forms as a template so I can reuse the fields next time?” The answer was no. It should have been yes from day one. I just didn't build it because the built-in templates felt like enough.
They're not. Here's why.
A template is a contract you've refined. You ran an investor update form three months in a row and by the third time you knew exactly which fields mattered and which were noise. You cut “product highlights” because nobody filled it. You added “biggest risk this month” because your board kept asking. That evolved shape is your template. The built-in one is a starting point you've already left behind.
Custom templates are live now. Create a form, tune it until it works, then save it as a template. Next time you create a form, yours show up first — above the built-ins. Same fields, same addons, same agent instructions. One click and you're editing a copy instead of starting from scratch.
The implementation is intentionally minimal. A template is a label, a tag, and a spec (title + fields + addons). No versioning, no sharing, no marketplace. I thought about all of those for about twenty minutes and decided they were premature. You can delete a template. You can create another one. That's it.
The one thing I'm not sure about: should templates be shareable? Right now they're private — only you see yours. But I can imagine a world where @pluck/sprint-retro-template is a URL you hand to your team lead and they clone it into their account. That's a different feature with different trust implications and I'm not building it until someone asks twice.
If you've been copy-pasting fields between forms: try saving one as a template. It's in the form editor under the “...” menu. If it's not obvious where, that's a bug — hi@pluck.one.
— Sumit