Obsidian mobile app in alpha testing

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Posted by Paul Korm
Mar 23, 2021 at 11:20 AM

Obsidian’s mobile app for iOS / iPadOS and Android is in alpha testing with a limited user group, with the expectation that broader beta testing will come soon.

It is already a very useful and fully-featured app on iOS/iPadOS (I cannot speak to how things are on Android):

* Syncs (on iOS/iPadOS) via Apple’s CloudKit service. Optionally the fee-based Obsidian Sync feature could be used for documents not stored in iCloud.
* Includes most of the features that the Desktop app has. The user-contributed plugins are also available in the mobile app.
* Includes a URI scheme so that Shortcuts, etc., on iOS/iPad can be used to extend access to/from Obsidian with other apps on the device

I find it interesting that Erica Xu and Shida Li have managed to make a robust Electron app on macOS (and Windows), and then port that almost entirely and seamlessly onto the Apple mobile architecture. All of this in less than a year (10 months).

Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 23, 2021 at 02:23 PM

Hm, that is impressive – and exciting!

Posted by satis
Apr 9, 2021 at 03:39 PM

Decent overview of Obsidian, but take it with a little salt because he also prefers general writing in Sublime Text (ugh).

https://bicycleforyourmind.com/using_obsidian

Posted by Lucas
Apr 9, 2021 at 10:18 PM

And in other Obsidian news, there is now an Outliner plugin, which allows for zooming/hoisting (like FoldingText):

https://github.com/vslinko/obsidian-outliner

Posted by macosxguru
Apr 10, 2021 at 12:49 AM

satis wrote:
Decent overview of Obsidian, but take it with a little salt because he
>also prefers general writing in Sublime Text (ugh).
> >https://bicycleforyourmind.com/using_obsidian

I lose credibility because I prefer Sublime Text?

That is funny. Thanks for reading and posting the link here.

macosxguru

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