Finding Aid
A light and dark Obsidian theme for archive inventories.
Theme previews for Obsidian
A different page for your notes
Choose from 7 free themes published in the Obsidian directory. See each theme in light and dark modes.
The catalog also keeps 33 archived previews. These are not released and have no download.
Archived screenshots may differ from a future release.
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Install these released themes from the Obsidian directory or download their published ZIP files.
Engineering Notebook
Engineering Notebook gives specifications, measurements, and design records a blueprint page.
Incident Review
Incident Review is an Obsidian theme for postmortems, incident timelines, and on-call notes.
Terminal Notes
Terminal Notes is an Obsidian theme for command references, shell logs, and technical notes.
Gallery Marginalia
Gallery Marginalia is for image collections, exhibition notes and visual research.
Storyboard Frames
Storyboard Frames is for scene outlines, sequence notes, and shot lists.
Waypoint Atlas
Waypoint Atlas is for location journals, region indexes and linked project maps.
Archived preview collections
These screenshots are available to view. The themes are not available to install or download here.
Comfort and clarity
Compare stronger contrast, roomier spacing and shape cues.
Aegis Contrast
People who need the strongest available text/surface separation, thick visible focus, and never colour-only meaning.
Ember Dim
Working in dim environments or preferring warm, lower-glare surfaces in both light and dark modes.
Open Hand
People who benefit from larger click/tap targets, larger checkboxes, and roomier line and paragraph spacing.
Quiet Ledger
Long reading and note review where fewer borders, fills and colour accents reduce visual noise.
Shape First
People with colour vision deficiency or anyone who wants meaning carried by shape and weight rather than hue.
Knowledge systems
Browse linked notes, indexes, glossaries and decision records.
Concordance
Personal knowledge index: map-of-content notes and master indexes that list many entries, letters and page-like references for a whole vault.
Lexicon
Glossaries, glosses and terminology notes where every entry is a term with one or more definitions and cross-references.
Precedent
Decision history and decision records (ADR-style logs): a dated sequence of choices, their status and their consequences.
Rhizome
Evergreen note gardens: continuously growing, densely interlinked notes where the links themselves are the primary reading surface.
Planning
Set out your tasks, meetings, weekly plans and operations notes.
Horizon Weekly
weekly and calendar-adjacent planning
Ledger Task
task-focused daily execution and checklist-heavy notes
Minute Meeting
meeting notes with action items
Ops Compact
high-density operations and runbooks
Verdict Decision
decision logs and ADR-style records
Reading
Find a page style for books, reference notes and mixed languages.
Broadsheet
Newspaper reading: dense but disciplined headlines for digests, newsletters and daily briefs that benefit from strong hierarchy and column layout.
Compendium Reference
Dense reference reading: manuals, specifications, glossaries and note collections where many facts must fit on screen without losing legibility.
Grandview
Large-print reading for long sessions: comfortable body scale, wide leading and forgiving controls for users who prefer bigger text.
Polyglot
Multilingual reading: notes that mix Latin with CJK, Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Thai or Korean, including ruby annotations and right-to-left paragraphs.
Quarto Reading
Long-form booklike reading: essays, chapters and notes read start to finish with an old-style serif, a narrow measure and indented, justified prose.
Research and study
Arrange papers, citations, field notes and study cards.
Academic Paper
Long-form academic writing and reading: papers, essays, literature reviews.
Citation Notes
Literature notes and citation management: index-card style notes with tag-derived citation chips.
Field Notebook
Fieldwork journals: observations, specimen logs, margin annotations.
Language Learning
Vocabulary notes, dialogue practice, and bilingual study spreads.
Revision Cards
Spaced-repetition study: question/answer drills, recall grading, fast keyboard navigation.
Technical notes
Read code, specifications, runbooks and incident reviews.
API Reference
Reference-style documentation: API endpoints, config keys, function signatures, and spec notes where tables and inline code dominate.
Code Notebook
Notebook-style notes that mix prose with short, frequent code cells (learning notes, recipe/kata notebooks, annotated snippets).
Visual thinking
Explore diagram notes, galleries, storyboards and linked concepts.
Concept Weave
Linked concept-map notes: Zettelkasten-style vaults, topic graphs and concept hierarchies where relationships between ideas matter as much as the prose.
Schematic Draft
Diagram notebooks and engineering sketches: system designs, flow breakdowns, wireframe notes and specs where notes behave like annotated drawings on graph paper.
Writing
Try page styles for drafts, journals, editing and outlines.
Drafting Room
Long-form drafting with a quiet serif page
Morning Pages
Daily journaling with soft rounded surfaces
Red Pen
Editorial review and markup passes
Slugline Notes
Screenplay-flavored notes with monospace script body
Trellis
Outline-heavy writing with structured hierarchy
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Published free downloads contain CSS, a manifest, a README and the MIT license. Archived previews have no installable files.