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https://github.com/replete/obsidian-minimal-theme-css-snippets

Obsidian CSS snippets to tweak UI and harmonize various plugins with the Minimal Theme - for fellow hackers.
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Obsidian CSS snippets to tweak UI and harmonize various plugins with the Minimal Theme - for fellow hackers.

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# Obsidian CSS snippets for Minimal Theme

![Screenshot](screenshots/screenshot.png)

My working folder of CSS snippets for Obsidian configured with the [Minimal Theme](https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-minimal). The purpose is to extend Obsidian UI possibilities and also visually harmonize the style of various plugins with `Minimal Theme`, with a preference for compact UI. Updated regularly. Screenshots below. Some snippets will probably work fine on default or other themes.

## How to use

1. Clone/[fork](https://github.com/replete/obsidian-minimal-theme-css-snippets/fork)/[unzip](https://github.com/replete/obsidian-minimal-theme-css-snippets/archive/refs/heads/main.zip) into `/.obsidian/snippets` or use 'Snippet Downloader' plugin
2. (recommended) Install the [MySnippets plugin](https://github.com/chetachiezikeuzor/MySnippets-Plugin) via 'Community plugins' to easily manage snippets
![MySnippets plugin screenshot](screenshots/mysnippets.png)
4. Check periodically for updates and new goodies

## Support development

## Updates (scroll to next section for snippet details)
- **2024-10-17** Fixed Compact File Explorer for Obsidian 1.7x
- **2024-09-19** Renamed Compacter Tab Header to Ultra Compact Tab Header. What was I thinking when I named that one...
- **2024-09-06** Fixed Excalidraw Compact. Fixed Ultra Compact. Added Ultra Compact Sidebar. ![Ultra](screenshots/ultra.png)
- **2024-09-05** Compact File Explorer refactor and bugfix. Notes on startup padding JS fix in snippet header comment.
- **2024-09-05** Added Ultra Compact snippet. Ultra Compact Sidebar snippet. ![Ultra Compact screenshot](screenshots/ultra-compact.png)
- **2024-09-05** Added Excalidraw - Compact Snippet. Added Compact-er Tab Header. ![Compact Tab Header screenshot](screenshots/compact-tab-header-plus.png)
- **2024-08-31** Renamed `[ui] Compact Sidebar Header.css` to `[ui] Compact Sidebar.css`. Made vault selector compact.
![compact vault sidebar screenshot](screenshots/compact-sidebar-footer.png)
- **2024-06-11** Obsidian 1.6 fixes: Fixed Custom Separators and Compact File Explorer snippets
- **2024-05-17** Added [Sticky Headings for Daily Note](#user-snippets)
- **2024-04-09** MakeMD banners broke for me again. Might be a conflict of some kind. I've submitted an [issue on their github](https://github.com/Make-md/makemd/issues/297) so chip in if you also have the same problem.
- **2024-03-20** MakeMD Banners are back. Thankfully they've sorted out whatever was going on, so I've refactored the snippets entirely, and it works much better with less code.
- **2024-03-17** Added new Omnisearch plugin visual fixes. I've made a number of changes in recent commits but haven't updated notes. At some point I'll update screenshots and things.
- **2024-02-21** Disabled a number of plugins for performance reasons. Trying out ollama embeddings plugin, but its early days.
- **2024-02-21** Works on mobile. MakeMD banners stopped working again, combined with the broken inline file context I've chosen to just give up and disable MakeMD for now. I'll live without the pretty banners, it's a shame to lose this nice functionality but there are no other banner plugin alternatives that work and MakeMD is no longer worth dealing with. I'll leave the banner functionality here but if it works for you now, updating it may cause you problems.
- **2024-02-08**: MakeMD's inline context (filename in editor) has broken for a while, I've refactored CSS and reinstalled MakeMD but ths bug remains, so for some new files the inline context filename does not show. Reinstalling MakeMD did make my banner show again however and I've fixed the CSS for it. If you have problems, try uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin and reseting the options (disable everything but `Sync Context Fields..., Flow (beta), Inline Context, Flow Block, Open Flow Blocks...` if you wish to replicate my setup, which these snippets are configured for). I only use MakeMD for the banner functionality as there's no other option right now, and look forward to getting rid of this plugin entirely in the future.

## My environment

- `MacOS 14`, `Android 13`, `Windows 11` (sometimes), `Linux` (sometimes)
- Windows 11 and Linux might need little tweaks in snippets that deal with native titlebar controls, welcome fixes if needed but probably only an issue in a few snippets
- `Obsidian v1.6.7 (installer v1.5.11)` Desktop
- NOTE: If your installer version is less than 1.1.8, you _must_ reinstall from official installer to update electron for updated CSS features like `:has()`
- `Minimal Theme v7.7.18`
```js
// plugins I have enabled (33):
['obsidian-advanced-uri', 'auto-class', 'calendar', 'cmdr', 'hotkeysplus-obsidian', 'obsidian-icon-folder', 'obsidian-excalidraw-plugin', 'cm-editor-syntax-highlight-obsidian', 'obsidian-minimal-settings', 'obsidian-meta-bind-plugin', 'open-vscode', 'periodic-notes', 'quickadd', 'obsidian-task-progress-bar', 'templater-obsidian', 'obsidian-toggle-list', 'mysnippets-plugin', 'no-dupe-leaves', 'file-explorer-note-count', 'easy-toggle-sidebars', 'settings-search', 'custom-sort', 'obsidian-shortcut-launcher', 'obsidian-contextual-typography', 'open-in-new-tab', 'obsidian-tracker', 'omnisearch', 'snippet-commands-obsidian', 'dataview', 'make-md', 'meld-encrypt', 'obsidian-day-planner', 'sticky-heading']
// [...new Set(app.plugins.enabledPlugins)]
```

> ⭐ A star beside the follow snippet titles indicate I have it enabled in my vault (and should work well for you too as a default configuration)
## Editor Snippets
- **Custom Tag Styles** ⭐ - I'm not using tags much at the moment, but prefer the more compact look than the pill shaped. If I use tags more I'll extend this.
![Custom tag styles screenshot](screenshots/custom-tags.png)
- **Compact Right Sidebar notes** ⭐ - This shortens the margins and enables a duotone when not hovering for when a note is open in the right panel workspace (reading view atm)
- **Editor fixes** ⭐ - gutter component alignments, general editor fixes, less visible indentation guide
- **Frontmatter tweaks** ⭐ - styling, fixes for `editor syntax highlighter plugin`
- **Table tweaks** ⭐ - WIP, still waiting for a good table editing plugin...
- **Top Fade** - Remove harsh edge of content when using "Compact Tabs (classic)" with one of the positional Tab Header snippets (I prefer the Translucent Tab Header)
![Top fade screenshot](screenshots/top-fade.png)
- **Typography fixes** ⭐ - alignment fixes for editor, headings, list items quotes etc (WIP)
![Typography fixes](screenshots/typography-fixes.png)
## UI snippets:
- **Collapsible Right Headers** ⭐ - Hide panel headers until hover in the right sidebar.
![Collapsible right headers screenshot](screenshots/collapsible-header.gif)
- **Compact File Explorer** ⭐ - Compact styles, chevrons on right, makes attachment folders less visible
![Compact File Explorer screenshot](screenshots/compact-file-explorer.png)
- **Compact Properties (+autohide)** ⭐ - Compact Properties (Obsidian 1.4.5 feature) with hover autohide, just like the Make.MD snippet [note: I keep the Make.MD + snippets enabled for the banner functionality]
![Compact Properties screenshot](screenshots/compact-properties.gif)
- **Compact Tab Header** - Compact icons in toolbar, also fixes `Commander` plugin icon colours
![Compact Tab Header screenshot](screenshots/compact-tab-header.png)
- **Ultra Compact Tab Header** ⭐ - Compact icons in ultra toolbar, also fixes `Commander` plugin icon colours
![Compact Tab Header screenshot](screenshots/compact-tab-header-plus.png)
- **Compact Sidebar** ⭐ - Make main tab header items more compact. Makes vault selector footer compact.
![Compact sidebar screenshot](screenshots/compact-sidebar-header.png) 
![Compact vault sidebar screenshot](screenshots/compact-sidebar-footer.png)
- **Compact Tabs** ⭐ - Compact firefox-style pill tabs, better for smaller screens
![Compact Tabs screenshot](screenshots/compact-tabs.png)
- **Compact Tabs (classic)** - Compact classic tabs, better for smaller screens
![Compact Tabs classic screenshot](screenshots/compact-tabs-classic.png)
- **Custom Separators** ⭐ - user-configurable CSS for separators, works well with `File Explorer Custom Sorting` plugin
![Custom Separator screenshot](screenshots/custom-separators.png)
- **Custom Separators (gradient)** - user-configurable CSS for separators, works well with `File Explorer Custom Sorting` plugin
![Custom Separators (gradient) screenshot](screenshots/custom-separators-gradient.png)
- **Floating Tab Header** - Save space with this float right leaf tab header (show navigation, breadcrumb on hover/focus)
![Floating Tab Header screenshot](screenshots/floating-tab-header.gif)
- **Floating Tab Header (mini)** - Save even more space with this float right leaf tab header (show navigation, breadcrumb on hover/focus)
![Floating Tab Header (mini) screenshot](screenshots/floating-tab-header-mini.gif)
- **Hide Ribbon** ⭐
- **Native Scrollbar styles** ⭐ - make scrollbars way nicer and color themed
- **Resize Handles** ⭐ - prefer more muted theme colours
- **Restrict Last Right Sidebar Panel** ⭐ - Sets max-height on last bottom right sidebar panel, saving you from constantly resizing the panel when resizing windows (e.g. for the calendar plugin panel, which is to me essential)
![Restrict last right sidebar panel screenshot](screenshots/restrict-last-right-sidebar-panel.png)
- **Status bar tweaks** ⭐ - more visible text on dark theme
- **Tab Header on bottom** - Move the tab title bar to the bottom, vertical statusbar when right sidedock closed
![Tab Header on Bottom screenshot](screenshots/tab-header-bottom.png)
- **Tab Header show path and title** ⭐ - I've disabled inline context filename editing and rely on this now, this shows the filename always without hover and allows rename with one click
- **Translucent Tab Header** - Classic style tab header showing blurred document content underneath (NOTE: its pretty, but on large documents causes performance issues delaying text due to the constant reflows caused by the graphical effect)
![Translucent Tab Header screenshot](screenshots/tab-header-translucent.png)
- **Ultra Compact** - Super small navigation tabs, smaller toolbar icons, shorter file explorer. Usecase: tiny screen
![ultra compact screenshot](screenshots/ultra-compact.png)
- **Ultra Compact Sidebar** - Hardcodes sidebar to 135px. Goes well with Ultra Compact snippet. Caveats: mouse resize not possible, resize animation broken
![ultra compact screenshot](screenshots/ultra-compact.png)
### User Snippets:
- **Daily Note styles** ⭐ - supporting styles for my daily note template, scoped to notes with `cssclass: dailynote` in frontmatter
- **Daily Note (Sticky Headings)** ⭐ - requires 'Sticky Headings' plugin, and disables the stick view for anything other than `cssclass: dailynote`
![Daily Note Sticky Headings](screenshots/dailynote-sticky.png)
- **Themed colours** ⭐ - Custom accent colours for each minimal theme subtheme, I like switchng minimal colour theme ocassionally and this ensures the accent color is overridden with a color that makes sense for the theme without needing to manually set it
![Themed Accents screenshot](screenshots/accents.gif)

### Plugin snippets
- **Calendar** ⭐ - Compact, weekend, day styles, colours, essential plugin for me
![Calendar screenshot](screenshots/calendar.png)
- **Custom Frames** ⭐ - Compact panel
- **Custom Frames (Duotone)** ⭐ - blend custom frames content in with theme until hover
![Custom Frames - Duotone screenshot](screenshots/custom-frames-duotone.png)
- **Day Planner (Ivan Lednev's version)** ⭐ - Ivan has done an amazing job at reviving this plugin. I think this version is the best of those available on Community Plugins. This snippet makes the header a little more compact (I am a compact UI fiend)
![Daily Note Outline screenshot](screenshots/dayplanner-ivanlednev.png)
- **Daily Note Outline** ⭐ - Compact, visual tweaks, works with compact file explorer snippet
![Daily Note Outline screenshot](screenshots/daily-note-outline.png)
- **Database Folder (Compact)** - compact view
![Database Folder screenshot](screenshots/dbfolder.png)
- **Excalidraw (Compact)** ⭐ - Controls more compact, bigger icons, bigger library, tidier floating utilities island, colour fixes. Note: Screens are bright nowadays so I use dark mode exclusively, light mode works but I hardcoded a colour for control backgrounds that you might not like, designed for a white canvas...). Not tested on mobile, but probably fine...
![Excalidraw compact screenshot](screenshots/excalidraw-compact.png)
- **Make.MD Inline Context** ⭐ - Only used for banner functionality, inline context components are hidden. To use, add a `banner` property to a note's frontmatter directly or via Properties (see Autohide snippet)
![Make.MD Contexts screenshot](screenshots/makemdinlinecontexts.gif)
- **Make.MD Inline Context: Duotone Banner** ⭐- Makes all banner images duotone to match minimal theme
![Make.MD Contexts Duotone banners screenshot](screenshots/makemdcontextsbannerduotone.png)
- **Make.MD Inline Context: Faded Banner** ⭐ Fade images to background with a gradient, and offsets text
![Make.MD Contexts Gradient banners screenshot](screenshots/makemdcontextsbannergradient.png)
- **Meta Bind (Compact)** ⭐ - Inline controls are more compact, with customizations to some controls
- **MySnippets** ⭐ - make menu wider and fix button style/order
![MySnippets tweaks screenshot](screenshots/mysnippets_tweaks.png)
- **Omnisearch** ⭐ - Cleaner styles, less visual noise
![Omnisearch screenshot](screenshots/omnisearch.png)
- **Outline** - chevron on right, compact
![Outline tweaks screenshot](screenshots/outline.png)
- **Quiet Outline** - Remove rainbow colours to theme colors, re-arrange layout (I use this instead of Outline panel)
![Quiet Outline plugin tweaks screenshot](screenshots/quietoutline.png)
- **Task progressbars** ⭐ - alignments and themed colours
![Task Progressbars plugin tweaks screenshot](screenshots/taskprogressbars.png)
- **Tracker** ⭐ - cleaner styles and duotone on hover

## No longer developed (I don't use these styles anymore)
- **Mono Emojis everywhere** - uses mono emoji font (activate separately) for everything in an editor (this is actually pretty ugly and I don't use it)
- **Heatmap Calendar** - colours and text styles for habit type use-case [(imgur screenshot)](https://i.imgur.com/ndvRLIC.png)
- **Full Calendar** - pretty hacky due to limits of styling hooks
- **Obsidian Buttons** - alignments
- **Excel** - Follows minimal colour theme for plugin UI (excluding spreadsheet editor, which is a rendered canvas), tidy up some UI metrics
![Excel screenshot](screenshots/excel.png)
- **Day Planner (old version)** - ~~I'm using [my own fork](https://github.com/replete/obsidian-day-planner) of this abandoned plugin for more features but the styles here are not dependent on fork changes, yes its still buggy~~ Apparantly this plugin has a new maintainer, but I've stopped using it so these styles are for an older v
![Day Planner screenshot](screenshots/dayplanner.png)
- **Tasks - Mono Icons (lucide2)** - Lucide2 Monotone icon set for Tasks Emoji Format, generated by [this tool I made](https://github.com/replete/obsidian-tasks-custom-icons)
![Tasks - Mono Icons (lucide2) screenshot](screenshots/tasks-icons-lucide2.png)
- **Tasks - Compact** - Dates/backlink as tooltip. Colour-based priority. Incudes ['lucide2' monochrome tasks emojis](https://github.com/replete/obsidian-tasks-custom-icons).
![Tasks - Compact](screenshots/tasks-compact.gif)
- **Checklist (Ultra compact)** - Compact view (for tag mode users)
![Checklist (ultra compact) screenshot](screenshots/checklist.png)
- **CardBoard** - Compact styles, waiting on feature update so WIP
![CardBoard screenshot](screenshots/cardboard.png)
- **Smart 2nd Brain (compact)** - Some basic styles to fix some of the UX of this plugin, there are no class selectors in the plugin UI so its extremely hacky but makes it more compact
![Smart second brain screenshot](screenshots/smart2ndbrain.png)
- **Mono Emojis** - embedded Noto Emoji variable font (2MB snippet!) - not recommended

## Deprecated snippets (deleted from repo)
- **Hide Vault Title in Sidebar** ⭐ - hide the vault name in the left, makes sense if you only ever use one vault (removed from obsidian)
- ~~[Make.MD Banner](https://i.imgur.com/bn5bfMS.gif) - Mostly banner cssclass overrides, gradient, blur, tall, short etc - I refactored/improved this into separate snippets above~~
- ~~Make.MD Compact Spaces - use less space, like Compact File Explorer snippet (deprecated)~~
- ~~Make.MD Inline Context - Autohide meta ~~

## Support development

## TODO
- [x] Test/fix for Mobile Obsidian
- [x] Fix the weird list item alignments that vary depending on file length
- [x] Fix colour inconsistencies across light/dark themes
- [x] Test/fix for Windows (no fixes needed at time)
- [x] Test/fix for Linux (no fixes needed at time)