Contents

• About Obsidianotion
• What changed in 2.0
• What this theme does — and doesn't do
• To install
• Customizing

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About Obsidianotion

Your Obsidian with a similar look and feel of Notion. But it's better because it's Obsidian!

I know it can be challenging to migrate between tools, and the process can greatly impact your productivity. That's why good design can help accelerate the learning curve by creating a familiar context of experience to help us focus on the only thing that matters: note-taking.

This theme can help people who are migrating from Notion to Obsidian to feel more comfortable with the new flow and interface. It can also be a beautiful theme for those who already use Obsidian frequently.

What changed in 2.0

Version 2.0 is a full rewrite, built directly on top of Obsidian's official CSS variable system (as documented at docs.obsidian.md) instead of ad-hoc selectors. It brings over Notion's core visual pillars:

• Colors — a warm off-white sidebar, white note canvas, near-black body text, and Notion's single signature blue reserved for links and active/focus states. A separate dark ("night") palette follows the same logic.
• Typography — Inter (with a system-font fallback stack), heavy bold headings with tight tracking, and a calm 400-weight body text at comfortable line height.
• Content formatting — headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, inline code and the page title (inline-title) are all restyled to read like a Notion document.
• Properties (YAML frontmatter) — the property list is restyled to match Notion's quiet key/value rows: muted labels, no heavy borders, subtle hover states.
• Sidebar structure — spacing, radius and muted/active text colors for folders and files follow Notion's file tree rhythm.
• Shape & elevation — Notion's radius scale (4 / 8 / 12 / 16px) and "barely-there" shadow system for modals, popovers and menus.

What this theme does — and doesn't do

This theme reproduces Notion's design pillars — color, type, spacing, shape — not Notion's specific UI widgets. On purpose, it does not:

• add colored/emoji tags or labels inside note content
• add page-cover images or large icons above the title
• reskin tables, kanban boards, or tabs to look like Notion's own
• bundle custom fonts (it relies on Inter being available, or falls back to your system's UI font)

If you want any of the above, pair this theme with a plugin built for that purpose (banners, icons, etc.) — see Companion plugins below.

To install

1. Open the Settings in Obsidian;
2. Navigate to Appearance tab;
3. Under the Themes section, click on the Manage button across from Themes
4. Search for Obsidianotion in the Search field text
5. Click Use and then you're done! 🎉

Customizing

The theme is built entirely on Obsidian's standard CSS variables, so you can override any of it with a CSS snippet — no Style Settings plugin required. The most useful variables to tweak:

body.theme-light {
  --interactive-accent: #0075de; /* the single accent color */
  --background-secondary: #f6f5f4; /* sidebar background */
  --font-text-theme: Inter, sans-serif;
}

See Obsidian's CSS variables reference for the full list.

Companion plugins

To install the plugins that have a good fit with Obsidianotion:

• Go to Community plugins and turn off Safe mode
• Under community themes search for the plugins name and click Install, then Enable

Plugins that pair well:

• Banners — for Notion-style page covers
• Make.md — Notion-like flexible views
• Projects — table/board views from your notes