Beginner looking for help with editing and customising obsidian

What I’m trying to do

I want to learn how to edit plugins to customise obsidian. Like I couldnt figure out how to edit a CSS plugin for example, and I tried to edit the source file code. And I don’t know if I’m supposed to edit stuff with any plugin by editing code or editing a source file or something. I don’t know where to go to customise plugins to make my obsidian vault unique.

Things I have tried

Looking on line and using reddit

Hi @Deuxv3, your question involves a mixture of different areas. To customise Obsidian, there are a few areas to be covered. You can mix them or play with them one by one.

But the most important thing is that once a plugin is in your vault and installed, you can’t (or, more complexly, it’s almost impossible) edit it. Plugins can be edited in source code (usually GitHub), compiled, and installed.

So …

CSS snippets: CSS snippets - Obsidian Help
CSS snippets are the easiest things to play with. It’s not suggested that you change any original CSS file from Obsidian or any plugins. All of them are using them, and any changes can bring them to the point that they will stop working. So, as the link suggests - create a new CSS file and start customizing it there.

Plugins: Build a plugin - Developer Documentation
I do not know how familiar you are with coding/programming, but if this is your horse, dive into the beauty of developing and modifying plugins. Take a look also of just trying community plugins - Community plugins - Obsidian Help

Themes: Build a theme - Developer Documentation
This area is big! If you want to build a beautiful, useful, and user-friendly theme, you need to dive deep. Check some themes - Themes - Obsidian Help

Some plugins enable you to play with TypeScript and JavaScript inside Obsidian without building plugins.

I know it’s boring, but Obsidian’s Help is a good starting point for familiarizing yourself with options and then with the next steps - building those options.

I hope you get something to start.

Cheers, Marko :nerd_face:

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I’m not sure customisation of plugins is the place to start to customise your experience with Obsidian. There are so many others way to customise through using the existing plugins and CSS, and scripting and so on.

I feel that if your first step within Obsidian is to customise plugins, you should take a deep breath and consider taking some time and get to learn the ecosystem and how Obsidian works. And then look at what those tools can do for you.

You shouldn’t start redefining the tool, before you’ve learned how to master the tool in the first place.

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