Android 1.4.0 - Can you pin the sidebars, and where has Calendar gone

[Liselle]

Things I have tried

Searching forum, settings, and Googling.

Am I even in the right place for an Android question? The mobile section’s post template wanted me to fill in what version I’m testing - I’m not testing anything, so I thought that was the wrong place - ? Happy to post elsewhere if this is wrong.

Also I’m sure I sound like a newbie…I am one (from last March or so) - apologies in advance…

What I’m trying to do

In order of priority -

1. How do I display the calendar (Liam Cain’s community plugin)? It used to be in the right sidebar, but that seems to have disappeared. Calendar is still enabled in settings.

2. Sidebars - is there any way to get them to pin (dock) like they used to? I see how to make the left sidebar fly out, but what about the right one (where I kept the calendar)?

Without them pinned, you can only see one thing at a time so doing stuff is harder. It was nice being able to see more than one thing at once.

I wonder if I’m wrong though since Workspaces seem still to be a feature. That doesn’t make sense if you can only display one thing at a time.

My workspaces don’t work, though. When I load one, nothing happens - there’s just a single note on the screen, with lots of blank space on each side.

[Liselle]

Okay - by pure luck have solved question number one. Swipe in from the right edge, and voila, there’s the calendar.

On the calendar fly-out, there’s a button that looks like this -

→
←

Click to see the menu with other choices like outgoing links and backlinks.

[Liselle]

I do still have the question about workspaces and pinning the sidebars, though.

[Liselle]

Edited - another point (I say in some anxiety lol) - if someone wants to see only a single note/edit box and nothing else, isn’t that what workspaces are for?

I never tried that on my tablet, but I have a desktop workspace almost exactly like that, with only the note and its outline showing.

[pmbauer]

Pinning sidebars was removed for mobile form factors. You can still pin the sidebars in mobile Obsidian when running on a larger screen device like a tablet.

[pmbauer]

Also, if you would share a screenshot of the blank space you are observing, it would be helpful for anyone trying to assist. That doesn’t sound right; you may want to update your theme, disable snippets, use the default theme, try disabling plugins.

[Liselle]

That’s what I’m using, a tablet, not a phone. Should I be able to pin? (If so, how?)

Even if notes extended from edge to edge, I wouldn’t want that. I use my tablet in landscape and the lines of text would be too long to track easily, if you know what I mean.

In other words there’s plenty of room. I never felt cramped when the sidebars were there. It was handy, and perfectly nice.

Will get you a screenshot in a bit.

[Liselle]

[Liselle]

With markings, for what that’s worth

[pmbauer]

Thanks! That looks to me like readable line length is on (Settings / Editor / Readable Line Length). Toggle it off and the wide margins should go away.

As far as the pins not showing up, that I don’t know. It was discussed a few places in discord that the pins would be disabled for screens smaller than a certain size, but not sure what that is exactly. If they aren’t showing up on your tablet, might be a bug.

[Liselle]

You’re right about the setting, but the setting makes my point for me. I wouldn’t want unreadable line length. Which is what it’d be if I toggled it off.

I’ll go hunt down the right places to report a bug, or make a suggestion, or whatever.

Thanks for your help!