After months of private beta, the Obsidian mobile app is finally here! It has almost all the features of the desktop app, plus mobile-centric features like customizable toolbar and pull-down Quick Action.
I love Obsidian!
After going through all versions of PKM apps and workflows over the years (Evernote, OneNote, DayOne, Roam...) I've settled on Obsidian and have been using it on desktop for a while. I tried using mobile workarounds like 1Writer, but it never worked.
Seeing how fast the team iterates and takes users' feedback, it was a no-brainer for me to become a tester of the mobile, even when it was only available to contributors and patrons of the app.
Been using Obsidian Mobile for a few months now and it's wonderful. An experience that closely mirrors the desktop with support for the majority of desktop plugins, full theming capability and customizations, the works. Runs beautifully on both tablets and phone.
As always, the development team is wildly responsive and cranking out feature updates with ungodly regularity. At the same time, the broader Obsidian community is producing plugins at a fantastic pace, meeting various user needs, both obscure and broadly-desired. Best of all, everyone is wonderful, open and supportive of each other — power users and newbies alike.
It's a product you love using, a community you're happy to be associated to and is supportive of one another, and a service that you can feel confident in over the long haul, with security and data ownership being a primary concern.
I cannot praise Obsidian enough. My hats off to @_ericaxu and @shida_li and everyone involved. Lots to be proud of here.
I've been using Obsidian every single day for over a year now, and all I can say is that it's incredible. The rate of development by @shida_li and @erica_xu is nothing short of amazing, as is the sense of community and support across the available channels (Discord and their community forum being the main ones). And I haven't even mentioned the lively plugin developer community that sprung to life after introducing the API (Todoist integration anyone?).
While the apps themselves may not be open source, one of the main differentiators for me initially was that Obsidian allows you to maintain a local database of .md files, meaning there's interoperability with other Markdown apps as well as no vendor lock-in. (Plus, it means you can choose not to store your data in the cloud/pay for a monthly subscription).
I've tested most if not all of the personal knowledge base/wiki, second brain, networked thought, relational/knowledge graph type apps out there (and continue to do so) - and end up migrating my test data into Obsidian every single time.
Both beautiful and elegant, it's one of the few tools out there that allow you to adopt new behaviors successfully and, as a result of that, become more productive (and dare I say creative).
The launch of Obsidian Sync (syncing between devices, end-to-end encryption, version history) and Obsidian Publish (selective publishing with graph view and outlines) opened up a large number of additional use-cases for many... and now there's a solid mobile app. Kudos and congrats to the dev team.
If you haven't already, visit the Obsidian website, get the app(s) you need- donate and subscribe if you can - and don't look back. It might be the best decision you make all year.
This is the perfect complement to the Obsidian desktop app. Another superb, polished, well-architected app from the Dynalist/Obsidian developers. Not to mention a warm, supportive community eager to help others with their “connected thought” workflows.
Congrats on the launch! I didn't know about Obsidian before, it makes me want to give it a try on mobile to see how much of my numerous daily thoughts I can organize in notes
Personal Knowledge Manager really is a misnomer - this is a creative tool to not just manage Knowledge but to build it through a combination of synthesis of known and newly discovered concepts through personal writing to create something new. First class implementation of the concept.
I've been using Obsidian for several months, and it's my trusted place to put all my notes and research. Super exciting to see one of my favorite pieces of software available on mobile devices.
Congrats to you @erica_xu and the Obsidian team! 💜
I absolutely love using obsidian on the desktop, it has the perfect combination of everything I'd want in a knowledge base and it's always fun to see the second brain grow and form links in the graphs, so I'm glad to see that the graph is on the mobile version as well!
Great to see it finally coming to mobiles, can't wait to try it out.
Congrats on the launch!