Obsidian Vault Switcher – A shell script

A shell script implementing rofi or dmenu to let you open the desired Obsidian vault.

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/<vault_name>.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:

{
    "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:

{
    "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.