When debugging an issue with a plugin, I often find myself closing and reopening Obsidian. It would be great to have a restart command (like the VSCode “Reload Window” command) to do this quickly.
Proposed solution
Add a “Reload Window” command to the command palette
Current workaround (optional)
Click X to fully close the application, re-launch Obsidian from OS
Just a heads-up, if anyone else like me is still looking for this feature:
To me it seems like the default hotkey Ctrl + R has been taken away in some version of Obsidian (I’m running 0.12.10). It’s quite logical to disable this feature by default, as you don’t want to accidentally hit a hotkey that reloads the whole application. If you need this feature, go to Settings → Hotkeys, type reload to the search field and then you’ll find Reload app without saving and you can assign a hotkey to it.
Or another way: In the editor, press Ctrl + P (maybe Cmd + P in Mac?) to open up a list of commands, then type reload and select Reload app without saving. This reloads the app immediately, without assigning a hotkey to it.
You should be able to verify your keyboard shortcut by going into Obsidian settings and locating the menu item “Hotkeys.” Then type “Reload” in the “Filter” – At this point you can either view the existing keyboard shortcut or create a new one for “Reload app without saving” (I prefer CMD-SHIFT-R on MacOS).
This works - just a heads up though for others, at least when I did this, sometimes it messed up the index in Obsidian and it had to refresh it. Not a deal breaker but sometimes more headache than it’s worth