5 Killer Hacks to Boost Your Obsidian on Mobile.
90% of the time I use obsidian on my mobile.
I see many saying it sucks in mobile and neglecting it.
Today I’ll prove them wrong.
I’ve been using Obsidian on my mobile for 6 months and have had no crashes or data sync issues till date.
PS: I got an Android phone so I don’t have idea about iOS
Here are 5 hacks to supercharge your obsidian mobile experience
1. Lock obsidian in recent apps for quick access
Go to recent apps with obsidian open, long-press the app and hit lock.
Doing this prevents obsidian from getting cleared from recent apps every time.
So obsidian stays open all the time at the background.
Be careful: when you’re phone is in power-saving mode, this won’t work. However, when you turn off power saving mode, it automatically switches obsidian to locked state in recent apps.
2. Beautify your new tab
Now you can beautify your new tab page with an aesthetic wallpaper at back, personalised welcome message and more.
All thanks to Beautitab plugin by Andrew.
Everytime you open a new tab you feel like you’re in home 🏡
3. Multi rows editing toolbar
Since desktop shortcuts don’t work here, the editing toolbar is the only way to fasten your writing process.
Obsidian provides you with a single-row editing toolbar with a horizontal scrolling option but its frustrating at times.
Supercharge your editing with the Commander plugin.
Go to plugin settings> mobile toolbar > change toolbar row count.
You can have from 2 to 5 rows.
Enjoy.
Bonus hack 💡: You can also scroll it vertically to see more commands. (Better than horizontal scrolling)
4. Title bar shortcuts
Having hard time accessing your quick commands?
Don’t open command palette again for your favourite ones.
By default there’s only reading view and editing view on your title bar.
But with commander plugin you can add your quick commands straight on the title bar.
They’re available now wherever you go and in whatever mode you are.
Bonus tip💡: You can also customise the icons.
5. Quick capture your thoughts using audio
I was using otter ai to capture audio notes. It was working in offline too.
But each time I had to share the transcripts to obsidian manually.
Finally found audio notes plugin to my rescue.
Now I open my daily note (from title bar) and hit the mic button (from title bar again) and start recording. Once done it automatically fetches transcription and inserts directly inside the active note (daily note in this case) with audio controls.
How cool is that?
PS: doesn’t work offline.
Boom! That’s a wrap.
Hope this article has changed at least 1% the way you use Obsidian on mobile.
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