Obsidian mobile app user experiece is really bad. We just need it mobile app to capture the ideas quickly in voice and text, And sync back to PC as centralized knowledge base.

[Hellowell520]

Quick Voice Note - it offers an audio button

Mobile app user experience is something like this. Quick Draft for Obsidian - https://quickdraftcapture.app/obsidian/wiki/Basics

[chhoumann]

Thanks for sharing this. The screenshot makes the idea very clear: one tap, speak or type, and the entry lands in today's note with a timestamp.

The slow part you feel is Obsidian opening and loading your vault. QuickAdd is a plugin, so it only runs after that. It can't make capture faster than Obsidian starts, and a separate capture app is outside what QuickAdd can be.

The good news is that Obsidian itself is fixing this:

• iPhone (Obsidian 1.11 and later): the Shortcuts app has an Obsidian action that adds text to a note without opening Obsidian.
• iPhone (Obsidian 1.14, early access now, iOS 26): Quick Capture from the Lock Screen, Control Center, or a Home Screen widget, without waiting for your vault to load. It can write to today's daily note, with a template.
• Android (1.11 and later): Home screen widgets for New Note and Daily Note. These still open the app.

For voice, the keyboard's microphone works in all of these, and in QuickAdd prompts too. Recording audio and keeping it next to a transcript is out of scope for QuickAdd (see #713). Obsidian's built-in Audio recorder keeps the recording. Dedicated apps like Quick Draft do audio plus transcript.

If you want QuickAdd's formatting, like a timestamped line under a heading in your daily note, you can run a Capture from Shortcuts or Tasker with the obsidian://quickadd link:

• Daily note recipe: https://quickadd.obsidian.guide/docs/Examples/Capture_ToDailyNote/
• Phone setup, including a dictate-to-capture shortcut: https://quickadd.obsidian.guide/docs/Advanced/TriggerQuickAddFromOutsideObsidian/#phone-shortcuts

One thing to watch with any capture from outside Obsidian: let Obsidian sync on your phone first. Otherwise a capture to today's daily note can create a copy that overwrites the one from your PC. Quick Draft's developer says the same: you need to open Obsidian from time to time so it can sync.

[Hellowell520]

Thanks, I will check it out.