is there a way to save a kedro project template? there are the usual things i change and add when setting up a new project, is it possible to save this template and instead of kedro new , do kedro load ?

Take a look at project starters: https://kedro.readthedocs.io/en/stable/kedro_project_setup/starters.html?highlight=starter#how-to-create-a-kedro-starter

You can either create a repository as mentioned in the above link or if it’s common enough you can make it a pip- installable starter so you can do

kedro new -s <CUSTOM_STARTERS>

awesome thanks!

What I typically do when I need a new starter is literally copy it out of the installed package. If you're using anaconda it'd be something like

cp -R home/<USERNAME>/anaconda3/envs/<ENV_NAME>/lib/python<VERSION>/site-packages/kedro/templates/project/ <YOUR_DEST_DIRECTORY>