Nvim for Notetaking

In the following you will find a config for researching and writing
within an academic context starring neovim. I studied Philosophy and
I switched from MS Word because of obvious reasons to Obsidian.md. It
was nice, but at some point it started lagging on my Laptop, which was
really annoying. I figured I try nvim then - here we are.

You find a list of all plugins and I will add a repo for the whole
config later on. Also feel free to pull-request or open a issue on my
github.

First off, these are some of the features:

markdown redering

annotation & highlighting

editing toolbar

sioyek (pdf-reader) integration

Everything appends down here but you can also jump to specific content via the
.mdVim dropdown-menu in the lualine.

System Integration

2026-04-14

Switching Fonts

Nvim does not natively support setting a specific font. I still wanted
a custom font for my .md files, so I made a autocmd that checks if nvim enters a markdown file and if so changes the Kitty font.

Create 2 files in kitty: ~/.config/kitty:

font_default.conf:

include ./kitty.conf

font_family JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono
font_size 13

font_markdown.conf:

include ./kitty.conf

font_family Garamond Mono
font_size 13

and in your kitty.conf just append at the end:

# BEGIN_KITTY_FONTS
font_family      family="Droid Sans Mono"
bold_font        auto
italic_font      auto
bold_italic_font auto
# END_KITTY_FONTS
font_size 13

This autocmd handles the switch: