Summary

A practitioner’s walkthrough of an Obsidian vault aesthetic refined over six years, covering theme selection, typography, and a minimal plugin stack. The author uses the Minimal theme by Kepano with Flexoki color scheme, iA Writer Quattro as the body font, and deliberately limits plugins to seven to avoid brittleness from community-maintained dependencies.

六年實戰精煉的 Obsidian 美化配置,涵蓋主題、字型與最小化外掛集合。作者使用 Minimal 主題搭配 Flexoki 配色、iA Writer Quattro 字型,並刻意將外掛數量限制在七個以降低社群外掛斷更的風險。

Key Points

  • Theme: Minimal by Kepano with Flexoki color scheme for both light and dark modes
  • Fonts: iA Writer Quattro (body) and Geist Mono by Vercel (monospace) — both free
  • Seven plugins: Calendar, Hider, Kanban, Minimal Theme Settings, Outliner, Style Settings, Terminal
  • Hider plugin is key to achieving the clean aesthetic (hides status bar, vault name, scroll bars, tooltips, file explorer buttons)
  • Style Settings is used only to enable “Plain tags” — removing the default pill shape
  • Custom CSS limited to one callout style (north-star) for daily note goals

Insights

The deliberate constraint to seven plugins is a form of antifragility — avoiding dependency on community plugins that may be abandoned. The “text labels for primary navigation” setting in Minimal Theme Settings is the most-asked-about UI detail, yet lives inside a plugin rather than core Obsidian settings. The author’s philosophy of stability over tweaking (same config for 4-5 years) is a good counterweight to the constant churn seen in PKM communities.

Connections

Raw Excerpt

My ethos with plugins has always been to keep it quite simple. I was very hesitant to build workflows around plugins that were ultimately created by the community and there was no guarantee that they would be continued to be developed.