For what it’s worth, I think this should be a priority feature request. It’s good for the users privacy and clarity, but it’s also good for Obsidians growth as a business.
We should able to use the private app data area for secure notes rather than only being able to sync notes to the locally shared/public areas that other apps have access to.
Using the private area for notes would be a huge privacy and security benefit for Obsidian mobile - especially for attracting more paid users, and providing for the existing paid Sync service users.
I understand that it’s important for some users to have the option to store notes in the locally shared public areas of their phone so that a third party synchronisation app can be used, however, not being able to use the private isolated app data area undermines the benefit of using the paid Obsidian Sync service, especially the end-to-end encryption privacy.
I would argue that having your notes stored unencrypted locally on your computer is acceptable, but far less acceptable on your phone, as users have less technical control over their phones data when compared to computers, along with the unavoidable accessibility/insecurity of a portable device like a phone. I’m not suggesting app level encryption-at-rest or anything major but at least being able to use the private app data area seems like a super important step.
