Little context switcher

[Abraxas-Knister]

Obsidian debug information

• Obsidian v1.8.10 (installer v1.6.7 whatever that means)
• Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
• SC 0.22.0

What shell are you using?

Bash

Please describe the problem

I wrote a littles script to aid in context switching between my private notes and the work on my thesis (which I want to keep in the same vault).

#!/bin/bash -

cd .obsidian  # CWD is root of vault 
if [[ $(jq '.newFileFolderPath' app.json) =~ '"phd"' ]] ; then
    # in PHD Mode, switch back
    jq '.newFileFolderPath="private notes"' app.json | sponge app.json
    jq '.search=""' graph.json | sponge graph.json
else
    # switch to PHD Mode
    jq '.newFileFolderPath="phd"' app.json | sponge app.json
    jq '.search="content:\"PHD\" OR path:/^phd/  OR path:paper OR path:book OR path:/diary\/.?202[4-6]"' graph.json | sponge graph.json
fi

It changes the default location for a new note in app.json (I don't want "same directory as current file") and populates a query for the graph view so that only files that are mostly correct are shown in the "phd" mode.

The only thing that doesn't work at first glance is that the graph view is only updated once open it again.

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I'm asking whether this refresh can be automated as a "cleanup step" after the script and more generally if there's a hickup safe approach to changing the configuration jsons while obsidian is running (I couldn't find anything about whether obsidian is happy with changes to its configuration that it doesn't govern itself).