Choose Vault at startup

[OlivierC]

Allow to choose whether we want to open the latest vault(s) or open the Vault Manager at startup.

Use case or problem

Obsidian always opens the latest vault(s) and does not allow user to open Vault Manager by default.

Proposed solution

Provide an URI to open the Vault Manager, something like obsidian://open?vault-manager, or obsidian://open?none (you get the idea).
It could be an “obsidian-wide” option, but project specific options are not clearly identified.

Current workaround (optional)

No current workaround, actually. User must follow the hard-coded way: open the latest vault(s) to be able to open the vault manager then close the previously opened vaults.

Related feature requests (optional)

I’ve seen this feature request many times, the answer that was given was always: “you can create a link to a open a specific vault”. This feature request is about the exact opposite: not a link to open a vault, but a link to open Obsidian without opening a vault.
Example use-case: use a .desktop file to provide multiple actions (one action for one vault), but not all vaults listed in this file, because it would be to much work to keep up-to-date and synced with actual vaults, because some vaults may not be used every day and don’t need a “shortcut”, etc.

[ariehen]

Option: Open Last Used Vault or Open Vault Selector

Rather than Obsidian always opening the last vault that you had open when it was closed I think it would be helpful if there was a toggle in the settings to either behave as it does now, or always present you with the screen that is shown when you click on “open another vault” so that you can choose where you want to start. Currently if one has multiple vaults that they’re frequently shifting between, it creates an extra step to have to manually open the vault that you want & then close the one…

[CawlinTeffid]

@OlivierC

I’ve seen this feature request many times

If there’s already a feature request for what you want, don’t make a new one.

[OlivierC]

I’ve made a new one because topics have all been closed. Maybe I’m wrong, but I consider that if a topic is closed, it does not get any interest. Keeping a topic open allow to follow the implementation (or not) of the feature.
Also, as I mentioned, all answers were: “you can create a link to open a specific vault”, which is the opposite of the feature request. Since such answers were given, it seems the requests won’t receive more consideration.

[OlivierC]

Also, I’ve just noticed my post has been unlisted. It seems like this feature will NEVER get any consideration and NEVER be implemented.
This is very disappointing

[CawlinTeffid]

The very first comment in this thread links to an open feature request.