I hate the new layout for mobile, particularly the navigation bar at the bottom, which is now filled with a bunch of buttons that I don’t want and will never use, such as “create new file”, “switch tabs”, and “other options” which essentially contains all the other buttons, a second time. Can I please edit my own navigation bar so that I don’t have all these extraneous buttons clogging up the already very small area?
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I’d love to replace the “new tab” button with one for the command palette. I don’t use tabs much on my phone anymore, and when I do, I don’t add new ones so often that I need a dedicated button outside the tabs overview.
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I agree. I am glad that I’m not alone!
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Agreed! I would like to be able to remove some buttons also.
I often press new tab by accident when I try to reach the quick switcher button that is far to the left now.
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I would love this too! Removing the new tab button would be great, and I might want to add buttons down there in the future or change the order. Quiche browser has amazing built in customization so that would be a good model to base it off of
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The “+” or new tab is indeed useless, because you can and should manage notes with the tab button (on the right side of “+”) displaying the number of open tabs.
The menu button instead, is necessary for plugins adding their shortcuts (items inside the “left ribbon” on desktop)
The loupe button instead, is a quick opener - not bad at all, imo.
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Finally, to go back and forth between recently modified tabs is not bad either, but could be removed, however I’m not sure if removing these arrows is a good idea
You could try to install my theme called Dune to improve your experience on phone, as it adds lots of features, not just “colors”.
I know, on desktop, the ribbon menu is hidden by default… Yet, on mobile, it’s easily reachable? And the reading mode toggle is not…
I’ve used CodeScript Toolkit to move the reading mode toggle to where the ribbon menu button is and get rid of the ribbon menu button[1], but built-in customization that’d let anyone easily do that would be real nice.
[[Mobile] Make the reading mode toggle button more reachable (overrides the ribbon menu button) - Share & showcase - Obsidian Forum]( [Mobile] Make the reading mode toggle button more reachable (overrides the ribbon menu button) - #6 by Abisheik ) ↩︎
The “more” button on the right can be changed to a custom command (with long press to open the ribbon): Settings > Appearance > Ribbon menu configuration > Quick access ribbon item. I’ve realized I basically never open the ribbon, so I used this setting to put the live preview / source mode toggle there.
Try hiding the icons via CSS (icons 1 to 5):
```
.mobile-navbar-actions > .mobile-navbar-action:nth-child(2) {
display: none;
/*visibility: hidden;*/
}
```
The 6th one is the ribbon. For it, better use visibility: hidden;
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Yes and replace the lens button with an actual search that searches everywhere, not just titles. All the time I gotta open the side bar and then the drop down menu to search a note
pls make menu/options available and configurable for each item customized in the nav bar. Same at top/tab bar (referring to the place were the “book icon” is)
Similarly to the ribbon button that can be edited and holded to see/select more items/options.
In regards to the + icon in the nav bar I have never used it and feels like a waste of space I’m giving it use to show toolbar configured with Plugin: Note Toolbar
Thanks for the great work and I hope this gets considered.
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Oh, that would be nice! I use Quick Switcher the most but I use the others occasionally. I think having them there as fallbacks would feel good.