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@angroid

Hello everyone

I’ve been tinkering with Obsidian for a few days and I love it. However, the missing export functionality on mobile, specifically on IPad, where I do most of my notetaking, and the fact that the Pandoc plugin only works on Desktop, are a huge inconvenience to me, as I often need to quickly export notes to PDF, Word or Google docs for different purposes.

I did a lot of research and couldn’t find a smooth solution either here or on Obsidian forums that wouldn’t require many extra steps or subscribing to another paid app.

That’s where Craft comes into play. Craft can import Markdown files and provides good export functionality on its mobile app in the free version.

I made a very simple IOS Shortcut that takes the markdown file from Obsidian’s share sheet and creates a new note in the desired space and folder in Craft. From there, all of Craft’s export functions are readily available.

This only works for pure text (and I suppose markdown links to online images / media), but doesn’t embed locally attached media. However, it’s useful for most of my use cases and the best and cheapest solution I have found so far.

I still hope that the mobile versions of Obsidian will implement some native export functions at some point, but in the meantime I wanted to share this solution and shortcut for those that need this in their workflow. Enjoy!

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/f0641edec7d5480bbcb04f3d2cb3182a

I didn’t know there was a thread for IOS shortcuts so I’m quoting my individual thread here.