Adding sketches and doodles to obsidian on mobile

[EvolvingRichie]

I’d like to supplement note taking in android obsidian with rough sketches, is there any way to do that easily?

[ush]

There are several community plugins to incorporate handwriting in your Obsidian vault:

• Excalidraw: great plugin, but not specifically designed for handwriting, I think
• Tldraw: Still beta, but more handwriting-oriented than Excalidraw
  • Reddit post by the plugin author

[Jopp]

Currently there is no serious plugin available to draw. I think at skilled creatives like product designers, architects, movie/ game concept artists used to think always in visual terms.

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[Feralflora]

They said rough sketches, so I think the existing plugins are plenty powerful. Also, it’s a bit disrespectful to dismiss Excalidraw as “not serious”, but perhaps you meant not for professionals?

[blue_emperor]

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