Obsidian — Noctalia Community Template

Applies noctalia's generated color palette to Obsidian as a CSS snippet. Both dark and light mode variants are generated, and Obsidian will use whichever matches its current appearance setting.

How it works

This template renders a CSS snippet (noctalia.css) into each discovered Obsidian vault's snippets/ directory. The snippet overrides Obsidian's CSS custom properties to match noctalia's active palette — backgrounds, text, accents, headings, links, tags, graph view, and more.

The apply script automatically enables the snippet in each vault's appearance.json.

Vault discovery

The apply script searches $HOME (up to 4 directories deep) for .obsidian/ folders. If your vault lives deeper or on an external drive, you can add a user template override in your noctalia config with an explicit output_path:

[theme.templates.user.obsidian_extra]
input_path  = "obsidian/obsidian.css"
output_path = "/mnt/data/MyVault/.obsidian/snippets/noctalia.css"

Requirements

Obsidian (any recent version with CSS snippet support)
python3 (for enabling the snippet in appearance.json)

Setup

Enable Obsidian in Noctalia Settings -> Templates.
In Obsidian, open Settings → Appearance and set Base color scheme to Adapt to system, so the dark or light variant follows Noctalia's mode.
Check that the noctalia snippet is on under Settings → Appearance → CSS Snippets.

Notes

The snippet layers on top of any installed Obsidian theme — it overrides color variables without removing your base theme.
Obsidian hot-reloads CSS snippets from disk on most platforms. If colors don't update after a wallpaper change, toggle the snippet off/on in Settings → Appearance → CSS Snippets.

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