diff --git a/packages/frontend/core/src/modules/template-doc/view/styles.css.ts b/packages/frontend/core/src/modules/template-doc/view/styles.css.ts
index 66b00a57f8..640f94f0a6 100644
--- a/packages/frontend/core/src/modules/template-doc/view/styles.css.ts
+++ b/packages/frontend/core/src/modules/template-doc/view/styles.css.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { cssVarV2 } from '@toeverything/theme/v2';
 import { style } from '@vanilla-extract/css';
 
 export const list = style({
@@ -14,3 +15,6 @@ export const scrollableViewport = style({
   paddingRight: 8,
   maxHeight: 360,
 });
+export const emptyIcon = style({
+  color: cssVarV2.icon.primary,
+});
diff --git a/packages/frontend/core/src/modules/template-doc/view/template-list-menu.tsx b/packages/frontend/core/src/modules/template-doc/view/template-list-menu.tsx
index 9645c2b67f..adc471c145 100644
--- a/packages/frontend/core/src/modules/template-doc/view/template-list-menu.tsx
+++ b/packages/frontend/core/src/modules/template-doc/view/template-list-menu.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import { Menu, MenuItem, type MenuProps, Scrollable } from '@affine/component';
 import { useAsyncCallback } from '@affine/core/components/hooks/affine-async-hooks';
+import { useI18n } from '@affine/i18n';
+import { InformationIcon } from '@blocksuite/icons/rc';
 import { useLiveData, useService } from '@toeverything/infra';
 import { useState } from 'react';
 
@@ -31,6 +33,18 @@ const DocItem = ({ doc, onSelect }: DocItemProps) => {
   );
 };
 
+const Empty = () => {
+  const t = useI18n();
+  return (
+    <MenuItem
+      disabled
+      prefixIcon={<InformationIcon className={styles.emptyIcon} />}
+    >
+      {t['com.affine.template-list.empty']()}
+    </MenuItem>
+  );
+};
+
 interface TemplateListMenuContentProps extends CommonProps {
   prefixItems?: React.ReactNode;
   suffixItems?: React.ReactNode;
@@ -48,9 +62,11 @@ export const TemplateListMenuContent = ({
   return (
     <ul className={styles.list}>
       {prefixItems}
-      {templateDocs.map(doc => (
-        <DocItem key={doc.id} doc={doc} {...props} />
-      ))}
+      {templateDocs.length ? (
+        templateDocs.map(doc => <DocItem key={doc.id} doc={doc} {...props} />)
+      ) : (
+        <Empty />
+      )}
       {suffixItems}
     </ul>
   );
diff --git a/packages/frontend/i18n/src/resources/en.json b/packages/frontend/i18n/src/resources/en.json
index 5e6efd3e19..2e0ed059db 100644
--- a/packages/frontend/i18n/src/resources/en.json
+++ b/packages/frontend/i18n/src/resources/en.json
@@ -1630,6 +1630,7 @@
   "com.affine.page-starter-bar.ai": "With AI",
   "com.affine.page-starter-bar.edgeless": "Edgeless",
   "Template": "Template",
+  "com.affine.template-list.empty": "No template",
   "com.affine.settings.workspace.template.title": "My Templates",
   "com.affine.settings.workspace.template.journal": "Template for journal",
   "com.affine.settings.workspace.template.journal-desc": "Select a template for your journal",