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That's an understatement. The mobile app is... frankly, kind of a garbage can of usability issues imo, but I love the desktop app, it's pretty great. But until they fix the mobile app I just can't use it.

I'd like to see the mobile app bridge the gap between typical mobile note taking apps and the desktop Obsidian app. Make it easy to create a new note like you would in any other note app, save it where it makes sense to save it, make sync easy to setup, etc. Probably asking too much, but ugh... the mobile app is so bad.

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kepano3y ago

Did you try the 1.0 version of mobile app? It's much improved compared to past versions. What are the issues you are running into?

selykgOP3y ago

Just downloaded. Seems a little better. I wish I could easily create a note in whatever folder I am in currently. I have an inbox folder. It’s where new notes go until I can deal with them. This always drove me nuts in both apps, but I can’t just go into a folder. Look at Apple Notes for instance as a simple example of how this works.

The sidebar is just a tree in Obsidian. It doesn’t really act how I want. This is less an issue on desktop, but on mobile my expectations are different.

Hopefully sync setup has improved in mobile. That was awful last I tried it.

ngrilly3y ago

I agree that version 1.0 is a huge improvement on mobile, and what convinced me to start using Obsidian. But I also agree that usability on mobile is still not on par with Apple Notes when it comes to navigating folders and searching. The way the desktop UI has been translated to mobile doesn’t work well enough. Would be great if the Obsidian team could spend some time playing with Apple Notes on mobile and see if they are some UI concepts they could imitate :)

kepano3y ago

> I wish I could easily create a note in whatever folder I am in currently.

That's easy. Go to:

Settings > Files & Links > Default location for new notes: Same folder as current file

Note that the file explorer is a plugin like any other, so you can also create your own file explorer plugin that works the way you want it to :)

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kepano3y ago

Did you try the 1.0 version of mobile app? It's much improved compared to past versions. What are the issues you are running into?

selykgOP3y ago

The sidebar is just a tree in Obsidian. It doesn’t really act how I want. This is less an issue on desktop, but on mobile my expectations are different.

Hopefully sync setup has improved in mobile. That was awful last I tried it.

ngrilly3y ago

kepano3y ago

> I wish I could easily create a note in whatever folder I am in currently.

That's easy. Go to:

Settings > Files & Links > Default location for new notes: Same folder as current file

Note that the file explorer is a plugin like any other, so you can also create your own file explorer plugin that works the way you want it to :)

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