obsidian: support existing vaults and rename Concepts to Knowledge - #21
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Seeding a vault that already had an .obsidian/ skipped every settings file, so vim mode, hotkeys and the plugin list never took effect. The pack's settings files and .obsidian.vimrc are now reset on every run: a differing file is backed up under $XDG_STATE_HOME/seed-vault/ and replaced. Settings the pack does not ship are left alone, and starter content (AGENTS.md, Home.md, .gitignore) is still only added when missing. The script refuses to run while Obsidian is open, since Obsidian would write its in-memory settings back over the new files. Folders are now Concepts, Projects, References, Archive, Templates and _Inbox. attachments/ and references/people/ are gone; attachments go next to the note again. The README says plugins only appear after they are installed from the community browser, which the pack does not do.
Knowledge/ reads better than Concepts/ for notes you worked out yourself (ideas, mental models, lessons), especially outside a theory vault. References/ stays for information recorded from outside, and AGENTS.md's filing test now names all three folders.
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Follow-up to #20, from running
seed-vaulton an existing vault on a new machine..obsidian/skipped every settings file, so vim mode, hotkeys and the plugin list never took effect. The pack's settings files (.obsidian/*.json, the snippet, per-plugindata.json,.obsidian.vimrc) are now reset on every run. A file that differs is backed up to~/.local/state/seed-vault/<vault>-<timestamp>/first. Settings the pack does not ship (workspace.json, other plugins) are left alone, andAGENTS.md,Home.mdand.gitignoreare still only added when missing.Projects/,Knowledge/,References/,Archive/,Templates/and_Inbox/.Concepts/is renamed toKnowledge/, andattachments/andreferences/people/are gone (attachments go next to the note). Templater, the new-note location,Home.mdandAGENTS.mduse the new names.Testing
_InboxandTemplates.app.json: backed up and replaced.workspace.jsonandAGENTS.md: both left alone.[skip]lines.shellcheck -S warningpasses.🤖 Generated with Claude Code