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Custom theming for your @RoamResearch graph is now live

Here's a video showing how to customize the CSS of your Roam, how to find the beautiful themes from the #roamcult, and paypal links to show support!

@RoamResearch Some really amazing custom themes for @RoamResearch submitted by the #roamcult last weekend

Turns out doing theming RIGHT will take more time -and priority is setting up payments so we can hopefully clear the waitlist out by end of week

This is MVP tho

Tweet Storm of what I say in the video

If you want to change the CSS on your Roam Graph (for yourself and for all visitors or collaborators, you can do so by adding creating a page called [[roam/css]] and adding a CSS code block on that page
That page is setup so that if you filter the page, the styles won't be applied -

(filters are stored per-user on shared/public graphs)

so if you're collaborating with others, possible for you to each use separate themes

(just filter to only include the theme you want)
The goal of this project was to help more users discover and use the amazing themes built by the #roamcult, and to be able to send them a tip to thank them

Having a quick-theme switcher turned out to be of scope for this project, but I think we get 80% of the way with this
Still have a bunch of more themes to test and put up - still haven't finished documenting the most wild one from @azlenelza

But here is a selection of some of our favorites

roamresearch.com/#/app/help/pag…
Will do a tweet storm with images, but first... smoke break
Ok first up

@anthilemoon of @ness_labs with "Roamness"

Good for longform writing - # are black

Elegant font

roamresearch.com/#/app/help/pag…
Next we have "Slightly Aesthetic" from @al_malecha

Color theme: teal, lavendar...

Honestly think it is more than just slightly aesthetic, but I didn't pick the name

Unfortunately we don't load the the themes early enough to use custom loading icon YET

roamresearch.com/#/app/help/pag…
The one that convinced me we needed themes

"Leyendecker" from @Mappletons

Improves on Kanban and Pomodoro components, but most importantly pioneered the idea of customizing tag styles

Suggest EVERYONE in #roamcult copy these, and tweak to your own use

roamresearch.com/#/app/help/pag…
Definitely the WORST NAME in the #roamcult themes

"Better Roam Research" from @linuz90

He only get's away with the sass because it's so damn pretty.

Confused the hell out of us because it switches from Dark to Light mode based on computer's mode

roamresearch.com/#/app/help/pag…
We seriously were like - are you sure you pasted the right code??? I'm seeing something totally different on mine.

Turned out... That was the point... actually uses the fancy Apple functionality we're all supposed to be using for enabling dark mode in 2020
While we're on Dark Modes

"Dark Age" from @shodty

Great name - good for progressively summarizing posts like this

ribbonfarm.com/2013/12/09/our…

and Roaming on the topic of Anti-Fragile civilizations

roamresearch.com/#/app/help/pag…
The grand finale is "Zenith" which is just unbelievable wizardry from @azlenelza

But that deserves a thread of it's own - and a release that isn't at 2:47am PST... so I'm going to be a tease and make you wait until tomorrow for it

Here's a taste tho

One thing that can't wait till tomorrow though, for our friends in MENA, who want to roam in Arabic, Farsi, or Hebrew

RTL from @davidcrandall_w

Now just need to figure out how to make a #[[style/tag]] that's sets rtl for self and nested blocks

roamresearch.com/#/app/help/pag…
RTL applied.

Honestly one of my favorites
Zenith is now live

Absolute magic from @azlenelza

Includes aesthetic improvements to kanban, pomodoro timer, diagrams, and makes search bar to center of screen

but real wildness is making sidebar horizontal, and allowing graph display in background

roamresearch.com/#/app/help/pag…
I've heard he's got more improvements and alternate color schemes in the works, but honestly it's pretty insane that it's even possible to do this with just CSS

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