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kepano

I sifted through every suggestion.

The overwhelming feedback is that Obsidian on mobile needs to be faster and better. I encounter that too.

There's a lot of low hanging fruit, which is great. Keep in mind the Obsidian team is only 3 full time devs. Be patient with us ☺️

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Of course adding dynamic views, and lots of other improvements and bug fixes are on our radar too. But priorities are important for small teams like ours.

Right now I want to focus on startup time. Being able to access and edit notes on your phone should be as fast as possible.

@kepano and I think one of the best ways to do this is enable a quick capture view. Something that I can enter in a thought quickly that can be done while the rest of the database is loading in the background.

@kepano Thanks for soliciting feedback in this way. It has a broader reach than just, say, the Discord or forum, and hopefully yields more varied takes. Hopefully that's been a positive. But I imagine it also opens up the doors for harsher criticism as well, so anyways thanks again for doing it.

@kepano sounds great to me.

The other big thing I want on mobile is easier connectivity to a file. The share function does… nothing. I often want to share text to a file, or add the page I’m looking at as a link. Neither work, or if they do, they work so inconsistently and confusingly I basically never use it on mobile except plain text writing.

In other words, it does not feel like a first class citizen on mobile. (This is all iPhone/ipad.)

@kepano In the meantime, I wouldn't mind a separate phone app for capture. If I could just install a second obsidian without plugins.

@kepano Startup time will be relatively easy to address, Obsidian already has excellent startup perf, but a few things can conflict (initial indexing & plugin startup). With tweaking, this won't be hard to address.

In fact, all these startup perf enhancements will also lead to gains on the desktop. Startup time is a product feature, highly valued by serious users.

@kepano any intention to make iCloud sync any smoother on mobile?