Olivine

A Zola theme for a personal knowledge base

Author: Dongryul Kim

This theme requires Zola version 0.20.0 and above

License: MIT

Homepage: https://github.com/dongryul-kim/olivine

Live Demo: https://dongryul-kim.github.io/olivine/

Last updated: 2025-08-13T23:27:48-07:00

Olivine

A simple Zola theme for a personal knowledge base. Inspired by Obsidian.

Features

• Journaling
• Tags
• Knowledge graph
• Searching
• Light/dark mode
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Backlinks

Installation

The easiest way to install Olivine is to use the quickstart repository.

git clone --depth 1 --recurse-submodules git@github.com:dongryul-kim/olivine-quickstart.git <your-folder-name>

Manual installation

You can also use the standard method for installing a Zola theme. Please follow the Zola documentation on installing and using themes.

There is also an additional step that is specific to Olivine. Create a file a named content/olivine-internal-graph.md with contents:

+++
title = "Graph"
template = "internal/graph.html"
+++

a file named content/olivine-internal-sitemap.md with contents:

+++
title = "Sitemap"
template = "internal/sitemap.html"
+++

and a file named content/journal/_index.md with contents:

+++
title = "Journal"
template = "internal/journal.html"
extra.siblings = true
+++