diff --git a/init.lua b/init.lua
index e43be48..4e823c1 100644
--- a/init.lua
+++ b/init.lua
@@ -519,9 +519,12 @@ luasnip.config.setup {
   snippets = {
     markdown = {},
   },
-  luasnip.filetype_extend("pandoc", {"markdown"})
+  luasnip.filetype_extend("pandoc", {"markdown"}),
 }
 
+-- Load snippets from ~/.config/nvim/LuaSnip/
+require("luasnip.loaders.from_lua").load({paths = "~/.config/nvim/my_snippets/"})
+
 cmp.setup {
   snippet = {
     expand = function(args)
diff --git a/my_snippets/all.lua b/my_snippets/all.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0a11b6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/my_snippets/all.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+return {
+  -- A snippet that expands the trigger "hi" into the string "Hello, world!".
+  require("luasnip").snippet(
+    { trig = "hi" },
+    { t("Hello, world!") }
+  ),
+
+  -- To return multiple snippets, use one `return` statement per snippet file
+  -- and return a table of Lua snippets.
+  require("luasnip").snippet(
+    { trig = "foo" },
+    { t("Another snippet.") }
+  )
+}
diff --git a/snippets/boilerplate.html b/my_snippets/boilerplate.html
similarity index 100%
rename from snippets/boilerplate.html
rename to my_snippets/boilerplate.html
diff --git a/my_snippets/markdown.lua b/my_snippets/markdown.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b3d7972
--- /dev/null
+++ b/my_snippets/markdown.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+local ls = require("luasnip")
+local s = ls.snippet
+local t = ls.text_node
+local i = ls.insert_node
+local f = ls.function_node
+
+-- Function to get the datetime
+--   with daylight saving time
+--   according to the locale
+local get_date = function()
+  return os.date("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z")
+end
+
+-- Function to get an id based on the datetime 
+local get_id = function()
+  return os.date("%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
+end
+
+return {
+  s(
+    {
+      trig = "datetime",
+      dscr = "Insert datetime with locale daylight saving"
+    },
+    {
+      f(get_date, {})
+    }
+  ),
+  s(
+    {
+      trig = "id",
+      dscr = "Insert an id based on the datetime"
+    },
+    {
+      f(get_id, {})
+    }
+  ),
+  s(
+    {
+      trig = "yaml",
+      dscr = "Insert a YAML frontmatter for markdown"
+    },
+    {
+      t { "---", "title: " },
+      i(1, "title"),
+      t{ "", "date: " },
+      f(get_date, {}),
+      t{ "", "id: " },
+      f(get_id, {}),
+      t{ "","tags: [" },
+      i(2, "tags"),
+      t{ "]", "---", "" },
+      i(0),
+    }
+  )
+}
diff --git a/snippets/template.md b/my_snippets/template.md
similarity index 100%
rename from snippets/template.md
rename to my_snippets/template.md