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Themes
Best theme: Minimal by @kepano
Overview
Minimal is an opinionated Obsidian theme designed to create a focused editing experience and more Mac-like interface.
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Installing Minimal 2
To get the best experience I recommend installing all three of the latest versions:
Minimal Theme , available in community themes.
Minimal Theme Settings plugin , available in third-party plugins. Allows you to customize fonts, colors, and more details of the Minimal Theme.
Hider plugin , available in third…
Runner-up: Blue Topaz by @WhyI
Now the theme is available in Community Themes page of Obsidian!
Blue Topaz
This is a theme for my own use. So the light and dark modes don’t look the same. For the introduction, I just copy&paste the intro from Github. I hope you enjoy it.
A blue theme for Obsidian . Blue Topaz is not a precious gem, like obsidian😜. Generally, Blue Topaz is obtained by artificially treating colourless topaz. Likewise，I did not make this theme from scratch, but modified it after borrowing others’ themes. It i…
Lucky winner*: Obsidianite by @TriDiamond
I recently stumble across a evolutionary note taking app called Obsidian . So I have migrated my design from my Typora theme Obsidian to Obsidian. Amazing right? We used the same name!
So I have made a new name for my theme in Obsidian, let’s call it Obsidianite!
This theme focused on generating the feel of obsidian in the galaxy. It has futuristic neon colorings, as well as having the feel of “Obsidian” power.
Hope you all note takers out there likes it. Happy note taking!
Before using:
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Plugins
Best plugin: Sliding Panes by @death.au
With the official Plugin API now being a thing , it’s time to start migrating the existing Andy Matischak mode CSS into a togglable plugin with more power and options.
I now have a release of an initial implementation, ready for people to play around with.
It works like the 2.7 version with headers on the side. The header width and pane width is configurable via the settings, and there is also a command to toggle it on and off (which you can configure a hotkey for).
Changing the active pane …
Runner-up: Calendar by @liam
Lucky winner*: Obsidian Git by @evrwhr
Hey people! Created a plugin to automatically backup your vault into git. Git itself needs to be installed and git repository needs to be initialized in the vault directory, but in near future I plan to add an option to initialize git repo from within Obsidian UI.
Let me know what you think and any feedback is welcome! https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git
Obsidian Git
Simple plugin that allows you to backup your Obsidian (https://obsidian.md ) vault to a remote git repositor…
Graph
Best graph: KGB_Vault by @websinthe
Name: Kieran Guy Bicheno
Vault Name: KGB_Vault
# of items: 1,931
Graph image url: https://i.imgur.com/t6QCBb7.png
I began using Obsidian to help with my ADHD. The “Starship Obsidian” is made from the study notes I’ve taken over the last four months. I’ve avoided the spherical shape to show topics at a glance.
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Runner-up: Santi’s vault by @Santi
Your Name: Santi Younger
Name of your vote: @santi
Number of files in the vault: 1463
What do you use this vault for:
Zettelkasten, ideas generator, place to draft my books, and creative projects.
Tool for publishing my best ideas (with Obsidian Publish of course).
Notes for learning programming, stenography, graphic-design, 3D modeling.
Text Editor for my Gatsby website.
My tool of choice for making tech tutorials for creative people. Including Obsidian meta-tutorials.
[santi-graph-2020-…
Your Name: @QuantumNeurotechno
Name of your vault: Connectome
Number of files in the vault: ~3768 as of 12/7/2020 19:48
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What do you use this vault for:
Collecting, using, connecting, and analyzing information over time for the following purposes:
PhD graduate research (Materials Science/Chemistry/Spin Physics)
Useful life principles
Novel metaseries planning and writing
Pretty much anything else life- or project-related
Stories
Best story: “I never chose to write, Obsidian made me write” by @base
Name: base (That should suffice for now
Runner-up: “From Paper Zettelkasten To Obsidian” by @Santi
Santi Younger
From Paper Zettelkasten To Obsidian
There I was, once again looking for a new app to organize my ideas. I’d been through all the common apps, nothing worked.
I found out that a mad sociologist by the name of Luhmann managed to write over 70 books with the help of over 90,000 pieces of paper in drawers. He called his system Zettelkasten.
My journey began, I created my own paper index card system.
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It was great, but it quickly got out of hand, I knew I neede…
Lucky winner*: “Obsidian-made publication at the top journal of my field” by thanks4player
Nominating { thanks4playing }
– Obsidian-made publication at the top journal of my field –
From this post in discord
Hi Everyone, I have some great news! I am a PhD candidate in the study of religion of the ancient Mediterranean world, integrating other disciplines like sociology, anthropology, ethnography, etc. I used Obsidian for a brand new research project that turned into a full-length article publication at the top journal of my field! It took me only 3 months from start to finish thanks…
* To ensure fairness, lucky winners are selected by first shuffling the entries and then letting a moderator picking a random number without looking at the entries.
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