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.
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
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
With the new mobile design of Obsidian 1.11 I would really like to see more changes.
For example, the next/previous buttons together with the tab and ribbon buttons in the navigation menu can be hold to see/select more info/options/items. Why the lens/search icon can’t be like that? When holding it it could show “Open quick switcher“ and ‘related’ commands like “Search in all files“ and “search and replace in current file“.
Similar to the “Quick access ribbon button” I could choose the behaviour when tapping, personally “search in current file” would be perfect as I’m really used to that behaviour from Wikipedia. (Btw “Open quick switcher“ is my quick mobile action)
At top, next to the change view button, I would like to add “open command palette” and “search all files“. I’m currently using Commander for this but for something that’s essential I would prefer not to relay on community plugins.
In regards to the + icon in the nav bar I have never used it and feels like a waste of space.
Thanks for the great work and I hope this gets considered, at least for the future.
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.