andrewchen0623/obsidian-quiet-notes

Obsidian is a note taking app that stores your files locally. This repository, called Quiet Notes, is a small CSS file that changes how Chinese text looks and feels inside Obsidian. It is not a full theme and not a plugin. It is a single lightweight file that adjusts body text, paragraph spacing, heading rhythm, tables, highlights, and quote blocks, plus basic color settings for light and dark modes. The design principle is narrow and deliberate. The snippet only changes the reading and writing experience of the note body. It tries hard not to affect the rest of the Obsidian interface, so your sidebar, menus, and other structural elements stay as they were. The author built this for people who write long Chinese articles, journals, or short card notes inside Obsidian and want the body text to feel calmer and more relaxed. It also suits people who want a light adjustment without switching to a full theme, or people who want to read the CSS directly and modify it themselves. Installation involves downloading the file called quiet-notes.css and copying it into the .obsidian/snippets/ folder inside your vault. If that snippets folder does not exist, you create it by hand. Then you open Obsidian settings, go to Appearance, find the CSS snippets section, hit the refresh button, and enable the snippet. The README also suggests that if you use a coding agent like Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, or Gemini CLI, you can paste a single sentence asking the agent to install it, and the agent will read the instructions and handle the steps. You then still need to refresh and enable it inside Obsidian. The project stays lightweight on purpose. It is not a community plugin and not yet a full community theme. The author says that if more people use it and want one click installation or broader theme support, Quiet Notes may grow into a full Obsidian Community Theme. The code is released under the MIT license and will remain free and open source.