Obsidian Swap Background Color Plugin

A simple Obsidian plugin that adds command palette options for swapping the editor background color. I liked this feature in the DangerZone plugin and wanted something similar for general focused writing.

I should convert the css to variables and add a settings menu for changing the styles in Obsidian. But I made this for me, this morning, and I now need to start writing.

Build Instructions

• Run npm i
• Run npm run dev to compile your plugin from main.ts to main.js.
• Make changes to main.ts (or create new .ts files). Those changes should be automatically compiled into main.js.
• Reload Obsidian to load the new version of your plugin.
• Enable plugin in settings window.
• For updates to the Obsidian API run npm update in the command line under your repo folder.

New releases

• Update your manifest.json with your new version number, such as 1.0.1, and the minimum Obsidian version required for your latest release.
• Update your versions.json file with "new-plugin-version": "minimum-obsidian-version" so older versions of Obsidian can download an older version of your plugin that's compatible.
• Create new GitHub release using your new version number as the "Tag version". Use the exact version number, don't include a prefix v. See here for an example: https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-sample-plugin/releases
• Upload the files manifest.json, main.js, styles.css as binary attachments.
• Publish the release.

Manually installing the plugin

• Copy over main.js, styles.css, manifest.json to your vault VaultFolder/.obsidian/plugins/focused-writing-background-color/.

API Documentation

See https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api