Obsidian: Settings & Commands
Every setting and every command of the Standard Garden plugin.
Obsidian: Settings & Commands
The complete list of what the plugin offers. For how the pieces fit together, start with Connect & Publish.
Settings
Settings → Standard Garden has four sections. Items marked ⌥ are hidden until you hold ⌥ Option (Mac) or Alt while the settings are open.
Account
Connect to Garden / Sign out, your garden’s address with an Online button, and the four-figure summary (Local, Published, Views, Last Sync).
Publication
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Sync all published notes → Sync Now | Runs the synchronization. |
| Automatic synchronization | Checks every 5 minutes that the open note is up to date. Never uploads by itself. |
| Sync direction | Push (your vault wins — default) or Two-way (the newer side wins). See Sync direction. |
| Panel top status indicator | Garden (animated gradient), Subtle (thin line) or Disabled — for the panel’s top accent and the bar at the bottom of each note. |
| Open in browser after publish | Opens the live page as soon as a note is published. |
| ⌥ Publish status badge location | Title bar (default), status bar, ribbon, or hidden. |
| Ignored folders | Folders the Garden never looks at. See Ignored folders. |
The ⓘ next to the Publication title opens the status and color guide.
Appearance
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Standard Design System | Renders your notes in Obsidian with the Garden’s typography, rhythm and color. Off by default: it changes how every note looks, so you turn it on when you want it. |
| Editor suggestions | Type :: in a note to get suggestions for Garden syntax (cards, columns, callouts, galleries…). Off by default. Turning it off takes effect after a restart. |
| Default Theme | The theme used by notes that don’t set theme:. |
| ⌥ Clear theme cache | Re-reads every theme stylesheet from your vault. |
| ⌥ CSS Hooks Reference | Opens the CSS & Rendering Hooks page. |
Mycelium
Three switches, all described in Resonances & Inquiries: Enable Ghost Links (Option A) (off by default), Enable Linking Command (on by default) and Enable Compost Footer (off by default). Ghost links and the Compost footer also have switches in the panel’s Roots section.
Commands
All commands are in the Command Palette (Cmd+P / Ctrl+P) under Standard Garden.
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| Open Garden panel | Opens the side panel. |
| Open settings | Opens the plugin settings. |
| Plant seed (Publish current note) | Publishes the open note. |
| Uproot seed (Remove from garden) | Unpublishes the open note (asks first). |
| View live version | Opens the note on standard.garden. |
| Copy live URL to clipboard | Copies its full address. |
| Copy short URL (garden-short) to clipboard | Copies its stnd.gd short link. |
| Share note (Open share dialog) | Opens the share dialog. |
| Check garden publication status | Tells you whether the note is synced, modified or outdated. |
| Set visibility: Public Set visibility: Unlisted Set visibility: Private |
Sets the open note’s visibility. |
| Cycle visibility (Public / Unlisted / Private) | Steps through Public → Unlisted → Private. |
| Tend the garden (Sync all notes) | Runs the synchronization. |
| Harvest seeds (Download new notes from garden) | Brings online-only notes into your vault (details). |
| Prune garden (Clean up unpublished notes) | Lists online notes that are local drafts or have no local file, and removes the ones you confirm. |
| Ask Hyphe | Ask a question about your garden. Hyphe runs on standard.garden and answers from your published notes only. |
| Set note theme | Picks a theme: for the open note. |
| Reset note styling (Clear design tokens) | Removes the design tokens from the note’s frontmatter. |
| Tend the Mycelium (Link mentions) | Opens the dialog to link unlinked mentions (when enabled). |