https://github.com/hiimsergey/obsidian-vault-switcher

A shell script implementing rofi or dmenu to open desired Obsidian vaults
https://github.com/hiimsergey/obsidian-vault-switcher

bash bash-script bash-scripting fish obsidian obsidian-md rofi shell shell-script shell-scripting shell-scripts shellscript vault

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A shell script implementing rofi or dmenu to open desired Obsidian vaults

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hiimsergey/obsidian-vault-switcher
• Owner: hiimsergey
• Created: 2023-08-06T18:16:56.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: rofi
• Last Pushed: 2023-10-26T08:36:22.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-01-27T13:39:20.811Z (10 months ago)
• Topics: bash, bash-script, bash-scripting, fish, obsidian, obsidian-md, rofi, shell, shell-script, shell-scripting, shell-scripts, shellscript, vault
• Language: Shell
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• Size: 1.14 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# Obsidian Vault Switcher – A shell script

A shell script implementing [rofi](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi) or [dmenu](https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu) to let you open the desired [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md) vault.

![](screenshot.png)

## Setup

1. Pick the right repo branch depending of if you use rofi or dmenu.

2. Open your first vault.

3. copy `~/.config/obsidian/obsidian.json` to `~/.config/obsidian/.json`

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 with all the other vaults. (*NOTE: Make sure that all the vault-agnostic settings like "Native Frame Style" are included, else they will be overwritten.*)

5. Replace all occurences of `vault_one`, `vault_two` etc. with the names of your vaults in the script.

6. If you use Wayland, also uncomment the rest of the last line.

## Functionality

Before launching Obsidian, the script manipulates `obsidian.json`, where the information about the last visited vault is stored.

Unfolded, the file kinda looks like this:

```json

{

    "vaults": {

        "3156ae10c753d15f": {

            "path": "/absolute/path/to/vault_one",

            "ts": 2930683392013,

            "open": true

        },

        "7924ea59d122e65e": {

            "path": "/absolute/path/to/vault_two",

            "ts": 6933482910304

        },

        "8156a7a7412569dd": {

            "path": "/absolute/path/to/vault/three",

            "ts": 5209508285286

        }

    }

}

```

The line `"open": true` makes *vault_one* start when launching Obsidian. So if we want to start *vault_two*, for example, the file should look like this:

```json

{

    "vaults": {

        "3156ae10c753d15f": {

            "path": "/absolute/path/to/vault_one",

            "ts": 2930683392013

        },

        "7924ea59d122e65e": {

            "path": "/absolute/path/to/vault_two",

            "ts": 6933482910304,

            "open": true

        },

        "8156a7a7412569dd": {

            "path": "/absolute/path/to/vault/three",

            "ts": 5209508285286

        }

    }

}

```

There is probably a more efficient way to do this, but at least it works for me.

¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

So, all the script does is overwriting `obsidian.json` with the files you created in steps 2 and 3 of [Setup](#setup).