Creating a custom Obsidian writing environment: a video guide

In the last post I showed how I use Obsidian, a lot of people asked what plugins and themes I used, so I went ahead and created a video that walks you through how to get started with one theme and two plugins to replicate 90% of what I do.

The CSS code to style your text to look like a novel’s is:

/* It's easy in reading mode. */
p {
    text-indent: 35px !important;
}
/* Source mode is harder. */
.cm-line:not(.HyperMD-list-line, .HyperMD-header, .HyperMD-codeblock, .cm-line:has(.cm-hmd-frontmatter), .cm-line:has(.cm-meta), .cm-line:has(.cm-comment)) {
    text-indent: 35px !important;
}

.markdown-preview-view p::first-line {
  text-indent: 35px !important;
}

Just copy that into a text file (like TextEdit, hit Format –> Plain Text and then paste this text in) and save it as whatever.css and put it in your CSS snippets folder in Obsidian and you are good.