Minimal Obsidian

[@rogerpence]

Not only are your tips for a cleaner Obisidan appreciated, I very much appreciate the clean way you present. Direct, concise, and clear. Thank you!

[@dsuthapong]

Thanks so much Roger 🙏🏻

[@mikebeecham]

As a designer and long-time Mac user, I LOVED Bear, back in the day. It made writing so pleasurable. For some reason, I left Bear behind and forgot all about it. Today I'm looking to theme my Obsidian and came across your video. Now look! Obsidian looks and feels like Bear. Love it, love it, love it. Thanks Darin, you've made my day!

[@dsuthapong]

I Love Bear too!! I was trying to go back to bear several times, but Obsidian is just much better for PKM ☺️ Glad this video is helpful to you ❤️

[@mikebeecham]

@@dsuthapong It really was. But now I'm in a deep, deep rabbit hole. I've gone a little futher than your theme and have learnt a little CSS, so I can create my own callouts (and a few other tweaks), and now I'm about to starting theming it in Bear's dark theme 'Charcoal'. My productivity has dropped out of my shoes right now, but I'm having fun making Obsidian lovely to use (I'm a designer by trade, so I'm prone to the shallow, shiny trinkets in life!)

[@kithallows7125]

This is so helpful, I love how uncluttered Obsidian looks now. Thank you!

[@dsuthapong]

Nice! Thank you 😍

[@hanslim4031]

For callouts, I like to use templater's callout option. You just set a hotkey to it (mine is CMD + OPTION + C), then it brings you up to all the possible callout functions. Its useful because you don't have to remember the different types of callouts (hints, tips, warnings, etc.)

[@dsuthapong]

Whoa! That’s helpful. Thank you! I always forgot all the callout options and need to look up the documentation 😂

[@j.d.5709]

Where do I get the template's callout option?

[@menatoric59]

Thanks, I spend hours trying to do this, but with your video I customize my Vault in five minutes. Hi from Mexico City

[@dsuthapong]

So glad that this is helpful ❤️ Thanks so much for dropping your comment 😍

[@Alexander-le5fx]

Thanks for the snippets script! It makes focus mode more convenient to work with when one needs to open the tab bar or title bar.

[@dsuthapong]

Thank you! Glad it’s helpful.

[@skp-radio]

Just want to say thank you for this video! Now my Obsidian looks like real pro app

[@dsuthapong]

Sweet! Glad this is helpful 😁

[@brendtevenden6389]

This video (like all your videos was so helpful). At first I wasn't thinking I'd get much because I'm happy with my theme, but when you started talking about Callouts (I seriously spent over 10 minutes last week trying to figure out what these were because they looks so darn cool compared to normal expanding headings) and showed how easy that was, then auto slash commands THEN you showed about hotkeys to make your left and right panels appear/disappear - WHOA! So much value. I open and close those all the time and having shortcuts set up will save me going to mouse. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@dsuthapong]

Yes! Shortcuts are so essential to the workflow. I’m so glad you found this helpful 😊

[@WritingPursuits]

Extremely helpful. Thank you for this video!

[@dsuthapong]

Thank you 😊

[@MrRobot24]

Love the minimal look to allow one to focus just on the text

[@dsuthapong]

Glad this is helpful 😊

[@arielgodz8754]

High quality video, thank you!

[@dsuthapong]

Thank you! ☺️

[@CHOCOLATIONZ]

I really agree that obsidian looks intimidating to use when I first downloaded it. Thanks for the useful tips. Greetings from Thailand.

[@dsuthapong]

ขอบคุณมากครับ 🙏🏻

[@anastasiapyrkh6156]

Perfect as usual, Darin! I enjoy your clear explanations so much ❤

[@dsuthapong]

Thanks so much Anastasia! Glad you enjoy the video 🥰

[@peterk6215]

Thanks Darin, stumbled upon your page. Thank you for your tips.

[@dsuthapong]

Thanks so much ❤️❤️

[@bartvrenegoor]

Great video! Thanks! I am now using the same font, plus I removed a lot of the ‘overwhelming’ stuff. It makes Obsidian so much cleaner.

[@dsuthapong]

Glad you like the tips 😊

[@maurolimaok]

I really like those videos of yours. Thanks!

[@dsuthapong]

Thanks so much

[@JosephHollak]

Loving Avenir. Thanks for that one.

[@dsuthapong]

Thank you! Yes, Avenir is great 😁

[@8020Alive]

Beautiful KZbin thumbnail 💜 Excellent video

[@dsuthapong]

Thank you 😍

[@ErmandDurro]

Great video! Thank you 😃

[@dsuthapong]

Thanks Ermand! Glad it was helpful :)

[@jayman8001]

this was great thank you!

[@dsuthapong]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@iScanibal]

I can't find the setting where the ribbon is displayed in the lower left corner. Do you have a tip for me?

[@dsuthapong]

Ah… i have recorded the video to show you step by step. Please see here: October 23, 2023 kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIjWlYWffsiJhqM The overall steps are 1. Download Style Settings 2. Go to Minimal section > Ribbon You should see the option ☺️ if not… Are you using mac or windows? I’m not sure if this option is only available on mac 🧐

[@PeterGorrill]

WOW! Brilliant! So much in a little under 6 minutes. I'm off to hack my setup.... Thankyou.

[@dsuthapong]

Glad this is helpful!

[@MNI1270]

Exellent tutorial, really useful, thks👌- however, when activating the Minimal plugin, images in my already imported highlights from Readwise are very, very wide.. any idea as how to fix this? 🙏

[@dsuthapong]

Hi! In Minimal Theme Settings Plugin you can go to Layout section > Image Width… there should be an option to set how wide you want the image width to be :)

[@timbushell8640]

Whilst Minmal theme Setting - focus mode declutters the screen - it also seems to remove the working file/note name and when two notes are often used side by side - this element of 'focus' seems to work against you.

[@dsuthapong]

Agreed! The work around is the turn on the “stacked tabs” command to show the name of the note while in this mode. I’ll cover this in the next video 😊

[@shawndyang]

This is incredibly helpful. Could you tell me what Pomodoro software is?

[@dsuthapong]

Thanks! It’s tomito :) tomito.app/

[@shawndyang]

@@dsuthapong Wow! I've been looking for this app for so long.It's exactly what I need.Thank you so much for telling me, I really appreciate it!

[@YWYCco]

Hello Darin, thank you for these tips. Looks and works great on desktop. However, on my iPhone the note title reaches into the left hand sidebar icon and overall everything seems to shift a little bit to the top sometimes and gets cut off because of the iPhone notch. Using iPhone 14 Pro Max if this info is necessary. Did you make the same experience and do you have tips to fix it? I also come from Bear and love its look. Do you have any further tips or settings to make it more like Bear? Thank you Darin, appreciate all your efforts and help 🙏

[@dsuthapong]

Thanks for the feedback! Hmm i didn’t experience the same problem. Did you use Minimal theme and the CSS snippet i gave in the video? If so maybe try removing the css snippet and see if the problem goes away

[@YWYCco]

@@dsuthapong Hm, I tried with your CSS and without. No worries, not that important. Do you sell any course or do you have more content besides the content here on KZbin? I think your perspectives are quite interesting and I would love to take a course if you offer one.

[@dsuthapong]

Thank you so much. I am teaching a workshop in Bangkok (where i’m living) but also consider an online course. If i were to create a course could you please let me know what type of content and format you’d like it to be?

[@franktoth7107]

I can't unhear it lol but at 2:14 are you saying "this fucken lets you further customise the minimal theme settings" ? 😅

[@dsuthapong]

Lol! No! 😂🤣 This “Plugin” lets you further…. Gotta make my pronunciation clearer 🗣️. Now that i played it back again, i can understand why you hear it that way 😆

[@pampagrimaldi8584]

Great tips!

[@dsuthapong]

Thanks 🙏🏻

[@arjun6070]

Love the minimal look and What is the light theme you used in the video.

[@dsuthapong]

Thanks! You can change the color scheme in Minimal theme settings plug-in :) I think the one in the video is “Mac Os” color scheme with “all white” background

[@Moiz1708]

How to increase the main heading size?? Mine is short

[@dsuthapong]

You can use the Style Setting plugin to change it. Please go to 3.26 :)

[@petrkrnavek2420]

Hello, how can I import the fonts to the obsidian, please? :)

[@dsuthapong]

I think Obsidian allows you to use fonts that are already installed in your computer :)

[@petrkrnavek2420]

Yes, you are right! Thank you! :) @@dsuthapong

[@youwishyoucould8019]

Why did you make the switch from Bear to Obsidian? Did you make the switch before or after Bear 2 has been published?

[@dsuthapong]

Yes… if Bear 2 has published i might not use Obsidian in the first place 😂

[@youwishyoucould8019]

@@dsuthapong Does this mean you would return back to Bear 2 if it wasn't such a hustle or would you still stick with Obsidian because it's just better?

[@dsuthapong]

In fact… i tried to switch back 😁 but i realized that the note linking experience in Obsidian is so much better so i stay. If you are not sure i think you should try both apps and see how you feel

[@youwishyoucould8019]

I understand. I agree, the linking process in Bear is not really efficient. You said you use Things 3 for your projects. That's interesting. That's basically the reason why I considered Bear because it has a similar touch and feel. Craft is basically in the same category. Have you considered Craft as your note taking app? What are your reasons you didn't choose Craft?@@dsuthapong

[@hunterisdead]

Looks good, thanks for the tips!

[@dsuthapong]

Thanks so much for the feedback!

[@timbushell8640]

Created by Kepano - but before he became the CEO of Obsidian... Starbucks is hardly a recommendation for a font. : ))))) What isn't clear though is within the snippets - having multiple snippets in the designated folder... if I rename the file before dropping it in - say Darins-cursor.css so as not to over write or interfere with other, etc. That segment I feels was just too fast and not covering the needs of your snippet or your audience... BUT, very nice intro to some of the deeper recesses of Obsidian. Thanks.

[@dsuthapong]

Thank you so much for the feedback. I think i might gone through the snippet section a bit too fast 😁

[@jackbauer322]

Me use it for a long long time ...

[@yairreyes9288]

I'm letting this comment because it doesn't work now 😭😭😭 I think they removed the hide ribbon option in the hider plugin, I need the older version 😓😓

[@yairreyes9288]

Nah, I fixed it

[@dsuthapong]

May i ask how?

[@yeah_right88]

?? Obsidian is literally already very minimal. The before and after was only had one difference, the left hand menu was removed 😂

[@tonyatlas5653]

Thank you!

[@dsuthapong]

Thanks for watching 😊

[@vanesajara410]

Thanks!!!

[@dsuthapong]

Thank you ❤️

[@amstagram2343]

Thanks you ❤

[@dsuthapong]

You’re welcome!!