It’s honestly disappointing, what seems to be central in the value proposition it’s not even part of the team priorities.
Obsidian claims, “with thousands of plugins and themes you can shape Obsidian to fit your way of thinking”.
Indeed, two of the most valuable things are 1) the options to shape/customize the app and 2) the great community available (that provides the bulk of it).
However, the most current preferences/customization, same as your way of thinking, is a “live customization” and thus always being updated. Every experience and interaction let you deprecate useless stuff, empower you to enhance your annotation/thinking processes and ultimately improve your life.
3 years ago a developer, in their spare time, started to help with this global settings issue via a plugin (see milestone on GitHub) but based on the activity, complete functionality won’t be available in the foreseeable feature.
The moment I have to change to another vault due to related issues
- Mobile: Prevent the app from being terminated by the OS while it is in the background (reduce re-startup time)
- Instant Note-Taking: Needs a Lightweight Sticky Note App for Obsidian
or if I require to use Nested Vaults (vault within a vault), do I have to manually copy and juggle each time settings change? Does anybody know a better workaround on mobile, specifically Android?
If I’m forced to be online or build something on desktop as a workaround then I really don’t consider it quick, still any help is appreciated.