semanticdata / obsidian-starter-vault

🔮 Opinionated Obsidian starter vault—a compilation of extensions and settings to help you learn and start exploring Obsidian.

🔮 Obsidian Starter Vault

An opinionated Obsidian starter vault. It holds a compilation of extensions and settings to help you learn and start exploring Obsidian.

🌟 Getting Started

1. Clone or download this repo.
2. Open the repo/folder in Obsidian.
3. Use it, customize it, and have fun!

🦋 Appearance

The starter uses the Minimal Theme including extra configurations and settings via the Minimal Theme Settings plugin.

👨🏼‍💻 CSS Snippets

You will find a small subset of useful CSS snippets included with the starter. Here's a quick breakdown of what each one does:

• Compact Tab Header - Arranges items in Tab header into groups.
• Default Style Settings - Adds the option to customize Obsidian further.
• Frontmatter Tweaks - Improves the legibility of Frontmatter elements.
• MySnippets Tweaks - Essential UI setting while using MySnippets Plugin.
• Normalize Links - Removes decoration from external links.
• Status bar Tweaks - Improves legibility of the Status bar.
• Table Tweaks - Improves legibility of Tables.
• Typography Fixes - Normalizes styling and typography.

🤝🏼 Community Plugins

This starter vault uses the following community plugins:

• Advance Tables - Improved navigation, formatting, and manipulation to markdown tables.
• Calendar - Integrates Daily Notes. Let's you visit any Daily Notes with ease.
• Doubleshift - Press shift or ctrl twice and activate custom actions.
• Editor Shortcuts - Adds Hotkeys commonly found in other common code editors.
• Home Tab - Integrates recent notes and Omnisearch.
• Linter - Format and style notes. Akin to something like Prettier.
• Minimal Settings - Allows you to customize the minimal theme settings panel.
• Mononote - Ensures each note occupies only one tab.
• MySnippets - Adds a status bar menu allowing the user to quickly manage their snippets.
• Natural Language Dates - Allows @today style shortcuts.
• Omnisearch - Better search. Period.
• Settings Search - Adds a search bar to Obsidian settings.
• Style Settings - Allows snippet, theme, and plugin CSS files define as a set of config options.
• YAOS - Yet Another Obsidian Synchronizer - Sync your vault to GitHub.

📂 File Structure

root
├── assets/
├── journals/
│   └── first-journal.md
├── templates
│   └── daily-journal.md
└── README.md

🔁 Workflows

Formatting Text

The Markdown Linter plugin is configured to lint on save for a smoother typing experience. This means every time you press Ctrl + S, it will format the note as well as save it.

Search

• You may open the Command Palette by pressing Ctrl Ctrl in rapid succession.
• You may start Omnisearch: Search Vault by pressing Shift Shift in rapid succession.
• Reassigned Ctrl + F to Omnisearch: In File Search.
• Reassigned Ctrl + Shift + F to Omnisearch: Search Vault.

Editor Shortcuts

Action	Keybinding
Move line up	Alt + Up
Move line down	Alt + Down
Copy line above	Alt + Shift + Up
Copy line below	Alt + shift + Down
Select word / selection	Ctrl + D
Select line (repeatable)	Ctrl + L

🌄 Natural Language Dates

Autocomplete and link natural language expressions to daily notes.

Examples:

• @today
• @tomorrow
• @next week

© License

Source code in this repository is available under the MIT License.