Ability to add / move notes, tabs, views to the sidebar on mobile

Feature requests
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On desktop, I always have the local graph view open in the right sidebar, and a base with recent files in the left sidebar. I’d like to also add them to sidebar on mobile.

Related:

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Here in 2025, that file is synced to desktop, at least on my end.

23

I still don’t have it, tho I have syncing of settings turned off, so maybe that’s why.

I thought there was a feature request asking for that file to be synced, but I’m not finding it.

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My setting config is synced between desktop and mobile, yes.

I will argue that this request has gained in importance due to the utility of sidebar bases.

I shared a workaround for placing a base in a sidebar on Discord. In short, simply copy-and-paste the base(s) that is/are open on desktop from workspace.json to workspace-mobile.json.

Above, @CawlinTeffid shares how to close a note in sidebar by editing workspace-mobile.json. The reverse is also true: you can modify this file to place a note (or graph, or base, as per my workaround) in a sidebar instead.

Though it’s not necessary to modify code to remove a note from sidebar. You can simply long-press on the name of any sibebar tab and select Close (at least on iOS).

25

I support this request, having notes / especially bases notes in mobile sidebar.

27

I’m stunned how this was discovered, but I am so glad this still works! Turned off the ‘hide sidebar icon’ in the Hider plugin first, naturally. Thanks for sharing!

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Can confirm dirty fix is editing .obsidian/workspace-mobile.json and adding/removing an object like this:

{
        "id": "a654de4ccd77a139", # doesn't matter, Obsidian will figure it out
        "type": "leaf",
        "pinned": true,
        "state": {
          "type": "markdown",
          "state": {
            "file": "Name.md",
            "mode": "preview",
            "source": false,
            "backlinks": true,
            "backlinkOpts": {
              "collapseAll": false,
              "extraContext": false,
              "sortOrder": "alphabetical",
              "showSearch": false,
              "searchQuery": "",
              "backlinkCollapsed": false,
              "unlinkedCollapsed": true
            }
          },
          "pinned": true,
          "icon": "lucide-file",
          "title": "Name"
        }
      },

Yes, you need “pinned”: true, 2 times to make it stick.

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i need

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Doesn’t seem to be a way to move modules between panes on mobile (I’m using iPhone). E.g., I’d like to add Calendar and a couple notes to right sidebar, but see no way to do so.

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I agree. This would make mobile much more usable and comparable to the desktop experience. These “panels/panes” are technically called views in the Developer Documentation.

This issue is due to the lack of drag-and-drop functionality for views on mobile.

As such, it is related to these other forum posts:

33

Slightly renamed the topic title for clarity and searchability. Was: [feature] Ability to move panels on mobile

36

I hope the title gets changed to be more specific as I would like to have any and multiple types of “views” in the sidebars. One example is the local graph which AFAIK can’t be added and stay functional in the sidebars (even with plugins).

37

The Mobile Sidebar Notes plugin solved this for me