Refactoring the shadowmaker has become a bigger headache than I had originally anticipated, but it’s for the long-term health of the system, so I’m sticking to my guns. This weekend added further drama when I finally stopped running away from frontmatter and embraced it for all my metadata. Sure, scattering #ch-command directives throughout the body of the notes was insane, but fixing it is going to mean more than just adding a few metadata fields. I may have to completely change the way I use Obsidian.
The whole point of Web UI themes, IMO, is to save the casual user from having to write their own. And after spending the afternoon customizing the Lightbi theme, I’ve realized that it’s nice, but not close enough. Yes, I could get it to work, but I don’t want to work that hard - not on web skinning - so I went shopping for a new horse. Again…
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This time I want someone that’s closer in structure to my goal, and ideally, one that comes with a bit more guidance on how it works, where to make the changes, and with some good examples to light the way.
One candidate that I’m really liking is the Universal theme. In addition to being an attractive layout, and having a number of pre configured options for color palette, I appreciate the effort they’ve put into guiding me through the customization process.
I haven’t started actually doing the customization with this one yet - that will start tomorrow - but the documentation looks good and the demo site is professional, slick, and fast.
