# obsidian: side quests

> the pursuits around the company — minimal, flexoki, inkodye and lumi, dynalist, minecraft plugins, and the ecosystem's own projects.

- 2020– — [minimal theme](https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-minimal) (kepano, active): the most-installed obsidian theme (~5.4k stars) — kepano's side project became the ecosystem's default face, then his job. the minimal.guide docs and the settings/hider companions grew around it. (sources: [kepano/obsidian-minimal](https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-minimal), [minimal theme](https://stephango.com/minimal), [obsidian (project page)](https://stephango.com/obsidian))
- 2023– — [flexoki](https://stephango.com/flexoki) (kepano, active): an inky oklab color scheme for prose and code, named after flexography — ported across editors, terminals, and sites far beyond obsidian. (sources: [flexoki](https://stephango.com/flexoki), [flexoki, an inky color scheme for prose and code](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37816721))
- 2025– — [defuddle](https://github.com/kepano/defuddle) (kepano, active): the html→markdown cleaning library that powers obsidian web clipper — his show hn for it out-scored most obsidian product posts. (sources: [show hn: defuddle](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44067409))
- 2025– — [obsidian-skills](https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-skills) (kepano, active): agent skills for obsidian workflows — ~48k stars, the repo that quietly made him one of the most-starred maintainers in the agent-tooling space. (sources: [kepano profile and repos](https://github.com/kepano))
- 2016– — [40 questions](https://stephango.com/40-questions) (kepano, continuing): the metafilter-inspired annual self-interview — community-translated into roughly 35 languages. (sources: [40 questions to ask yourself every year](https://stephango.com/40-questions))
- 2011–2015 — inkodye (kepano, ended): his first company with jesse genet — light-developed fabric dye sold through kickstarter and retail. the met-at-artcenter partnership that became lumi. (sources: [the new disruptors ep.11](https://newdisrupt.org/blog/2013/2/20/episode-11), [twenty in their 20s: jesse genet and stephan ango](https://labusinessjournal.com/news/weekly-news/twenty-their-20s-jesse-genet-and-stephan-ango/))
- 2015–2021 — lumi (kepano, ended): the packaging company — 'shipping is violence.' raised real venture money (the exception that proves his later anti-vc writing), ran the well made podcast and slash packaging resource, acquired by narvar in 2021. (sources: [the future of commerce is human (kepano interview)](https://futurecommerce.fm/podcasts/), [episode 101 — shipping is violence](https://newdisrupt.org/blog/2018/9/27/episode-101-shipping-is-violence), [giant robots ep.286](https://giantrobots.fm/286))
- 2021–2022 — narvar (kepano, ended): the post-acquisition day job — design leadership inside the company that bought lumi, until the obsidian pitch. (sources: [steph ango](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephango), [dialectic ep.8 — tools for amplifying our light](https://jacksondahl.com/dialectic/steph-ango))
- 2015 — [computer show](https://stephango.com/computer-show) (kepano, ended): the retro-comedy youtube series — an early artifact of the same craft instinct. (sources: [computer show](https://stephango.com/computer-show))
- 2023 — [the hario v60 episode](https://www.relay.fm/tc/93) (kepano, ended): a thoroughly considered episode about the hario v60 — a pure side quest with no obsidian angle at all. (sources: [thoroughly considered ep.93](https://www.relay.fm/tc/93))
- – — [kepiano, furniture, cookies](https://stephango.com/recipes) (kepano, continuing): custom split keyboards, furniture, and the deluxe chocolate-chip-cookie recipe — the physical-craft half of the corpus. (sources: [the interconnectedness of everything — #28 kepano](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8vec3BuOnk), [recipes](https://stephango.com/recipes), [projects](https://stephango.com/projects))
- 2002–2010s — [winamp skins and early design](https://stephango.com/projects) (kepano, ended): the earliest dated entries on his projects page — winamp skins and forum-era design work, the apprenticeship before inkodye. (sources: [projects](https://stephango.com/projects))
- 2015– — [dynalist](https://dynalist.io/) (shida, continuing): the founders' first product — the web outliner that funded obsidian's runway. still running, still maintained 'as usual' even as obsidian eclipsed it; erica calls it her hobby work. (sources: [dynalist](https://dynalist.io/), [dynalist & obsidian](https://blog.dynalist.io/obsidian/), [no monthly blog update thread](https://talk.dynalist.io/t/7497), [projects: dynalist](https://ericaxu.com/Projects/Dynalist))
- 2013–2019 — [minecraft plugins](https://github.com/lishid) (shida, ended): orebfuscator and openinv — server-side minecraft plugins licat maintained for years. the plugin-ecosystem instincts (and the licat handle, from mabinogi) predate obsidian by a decade. (sources: [lishid profile and repos](https://github.com/lishid), [shida li — garden note](https://ericaxu.com/Shida+Li))
- 2013-09 — [nokia imaging hackathon](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/second-year-students-victorious-nokia-imaging-hackathon-lund) (shida, ended): the waterloo cs news item — second-years shida li and rudi chen win the nokia imaging hackathon in lund, sweden. (sources: [second-year students victorious at nokia imaging hackathon](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/second-year-students-victorious-nokia-imaging-hackathon-lund))
- 2023– — [silverland](https://ericaxu.com/Start+here) (erica, continuing): silverland — her public obsidian publish garden, themed in flexoki: essays on understanding and epistemics, the forces framework, music patterns, and the running count of 172/1000 dishes. (sources: [start here — silverland](https://ericaxu.com/Start+here), [forces](https://ericaxu.com/Forces/Forces), [music patterns](https://ericaxu.com/Music+corner/Music+patterns))
- – — [quantified chef](https://github.com/ericaxu/quantified-chef) (erica, continuing): the quantified-chef repo — 'track your cooking!' — plus the 1,000-dishes project she documents on silverland. (sources: [quantified-chef](https://github.com/ericaxu/quantified-chef), [start here — silverland](https://ericaxu.com/Start+here))
- 2021– — [obsidian october](https://obsidian.md/blog/2025-obsidian-october/) (company, continuing): obsidian october — the annual community build event for plugins, themes, and vault setups; the judging rosters read like a team pipeline. (sources: [obsidian october 2021](https://obsidian.md/blog/2021-obsidian-october-announcement/), [obsidian october 2023](https://obsidian.md/blog/2023-obsidian-october/), [obsidian october 2025](https://obsidian.md/blog/2025-obsidian-october/))
- 2020– — [gems of the year](https://obsidian.md/blog/2021-goty-winners/) (company, continuing): gems of the year — the annual awards for plugins, themes, and contributors, informally run from 2020 and formally named in 2021. (sources: [2021 gems of the year nominations](https://obsidian.md/blog/2021-goty-nominations/), [2021 gems of the year winners](https://obsidian.md/blog/2021-goty-winners/), [2020 gems of the year winners](https://obsidian.md/zh/blog/2020-goty-winners/))
- 2021– — [obsidian roundup](https://www.obsidianroundup.org/) (community, continuing): eleanor konik's weekly community newsletter — third-party scaffolding the ecosystem built for itself. (sources: [obsidian roundup, october 2 2021](https://www.obsidianroundup.org/2021-10-02/))
- 2020– — [linking your thinking](https://www.linkingyourthinking.com/) (community, active): linking your thinking — nick milo's course and video operation; 'obsidian for beginners' alone carries 2.4m views. (sources: [obsidian for beginners: start here](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QgbLb6QCK88), [fireside chat with @kepano](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8SWe0YrVWI))
- 2021– — [style settings](https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-style-settings) (community, active): mgmeyers' style settings — the plugin that made theme customization accessible, ~2k stars, and the reason half the themes on the directory are configurable. (sources: [obsidian-style-settings](https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-style-settings))
- 2021– — [dataview](https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview) (community, active): dataview — michael brenan's query-engine plugin that treated a vault like a database years before bases made it core. (sources: [obsidian dataview](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31407781))

AI-drafted at Ben Guo's direct request and credited to Hraness; every claim links to its cataloged source.

Canonical page: https://hraness.com/obsidian/side-quests


Published by @ben in profile revision 1.
Original document: https://hraness.com/obsidian/side-quests
Original credited author: Hraness
AI-drafted at Ben Guo's direct request and credited to Hraness; every claim links to its cataloged source.

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