🎨 CSS Snippets & Obsidian Styling Guide

Overview

Custom visual styles for the PUMA vault. Main stylesheet: 00 - Meta/Snippets/puma-styles.css

Activating the Stylesheet

How to enable

Obsidian β†’ Settings β†’ Appearance β†’ CSS Snippets
β†’ Click the folder icon β†’ confirm puma-styles.css is present
β†’ Toggle ON: puma-styles
β†’ Restart Obsidian if styles don't appear immediately

Custom Callout Types

> [!fleeting] Fleeting Note
> 
> Raw capture β€” process within 48 hours.
 
> [!literature] Literature Note  
> 
> Insight from external source.
 
> [!permanent] Permanent Note
> 
> Stable, atomic idea.
 
> [!experiment] Experiment Note
> 
> Observed: F1-macro = 0.68 on condition C2.
 
> [!spec] Specification
> 
> Given/When/Then BDD scenario.
 
> [!red-team] Red Team Challenge
> 
> Rival hypothesis or adversarial critique.
 
> [!progress] Progress Bar
> 
> Writing Chapter 2: β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–‘β–‘β–‘β–‘ 40%

Maturity Tags

#seedling  β†’ New idea, needs more evidence
#growing   β†’ Multiple sources confirming idea
#evergreen β†’ Stable, well-supported, reused across contexts

Graph View Customisation

In Obsidian Graph View settings:

  • Colour groups:
    • path:30 - Permanent β†’ Green (#22c55e)
    • path:20 - Literature β†’ Blue (#3b82f6)
    • path:40 - Projects β†’ Orange (#f97316)
    • path:80 - MOC β†’ Purple (#a855f7)
    • path:60 - Resources β†’ Yellow (#eab308)
    • path:90 - GTD β†’ Red (#ef4444)
  • Filters:
    • Exclude: path:70 - Archive path:00 - Meta

For best readability with this vault’s CSS:

  • Minimal (by kepano) β€” Clean, works well with Dataview tables
  • Things β€” Nice typography for long reading
  • AnuPpuccin β€” Good colour differentiation for graph view

Install via: Settings β†’ Appearance β†’ Themes β†’ Browse