1. A method comprising: receiving, by an online content management system, a request from a user device associated with a user account of the content management system to create a new content item, the request specifying a content item type for the new content item, the content item corresponding to a native application not available on the user device; selecting, by the online content management system, a content item template from a plurality of content item templates based on the specified content item type; generating, by the online content management system, a copy of the selected content item template; saving, by the online content management system, the content item template copy as the new content item in an online folder of the online content management system associated with the user account.