Hi friends! If you’re just getting started with using Obsidian MD for personal knowledge management, or if you’re revising your digital note-taking system, you might be looking for a way to make Obsidian look a little more custom and polished.
Obsidian is a very powerful tool for building your personal knowledge management system– it's a wonderful personal knowledge management app. At the same time, Obsidian doesn't have quite the same aesthetic appeal as Notion or Bear Notes right out of the box.
If you want a fresh look for your Obsidian database and digital notes in 2022, check out these beautiful, custom Obsidian CSS themes. You can click through to the Github link for each to access theme documentation and download the files.
5 of the best minimalist digital note-taking themes for Obsidian in 2022
Obsidian Theme - Things (inspired by Cultured Code)
Created by: Colin Eckert - @colineckert
URL: https://github.com/colineckert/obsidian-things
Obsidian Theme - Minimal
Created by: Stephan Ango - @kepano
URL: https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-minimal
Obsidian Theme - Primary
Created by: Cecilia May
URL: https://github.com/ceciliamay/obsidianmd-theme-primary
Obsidian Theme - Red Graphite (inspired by Bear Notes)
Created by: @SeanWgamer
URL: https://github.com/seanwcom/Red-Graphite-for-Obsidian
Obsidian Theme - Notation (inspired by Notion)
Created by: Gordon Pederson - @death_au
URL: https://github.com/deathau/Notation-for-Obsidian
Where to find custom Obsidian themes
Obsidian MD Forum
Want to explore beyond these themes? The best place to search for themes is in the Obsidian forums. They’re an active community, filled with helpful users who are passionate about personal knowledge management apps and system. Check out this CSS themes showcase thread in the Obsidian forum to get started.
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The Obsidian subreddit is also a good place to browse for recommended themes. Reddit users who are fans of Obsidian are keen to share and recommend their own preferred custom themes.
GitHub Roundup
Magnus Aasrud (@kmaasrud) (@kmaasrud) maintains an impressive, curated list of Obsidian themes (as well as plugins, templates, and other resources) over at Awesome Obsidian.
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Looking for a step-by-step tutorial on how to install a custom Obsidian theme? Check out this helpful video and written tutorial guide to getting a custom theme or style setup and installed, from The Sweet Setup:
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