Quick switcher and command palette are very often used : one could be accessed through a one-finger swipe down, the other through two-finger swipe down.
More broadly speaking, adding more gestures or a way to access several quick actions would be great.
I would love this feature as well. In the mean time, I’ve found a decent alternative:
I installed the Quick Switcher++ plugin and configured my mobile quick action to “Quick Switcher++: Open in Commands Mode”.
Then, when I swipe to open QS++, I can immediately search for a command, or I can press backspace to get rid of the > prefix and search for a note instead.
@maddi That’s a great idea! I wasn’t even aware of quick switcher ++. I’m using your setup in combination with my setup below.
Download the Homepage plugin and Button plugin. When opening Obsidian the homepage is automatically shown and you can put buttons for different commands in there. see screenshot.
Regarding possible gestures to assign custom actions, the Android launcher Nova Launcher has a crap ton of gestures a potential plugin designer could steal ideas from, including:
1 to 3 fingers swipe up or down,
Tap and swipe
Double tap and swipe
2 finger clockwise
2 finger counter clockwise
etc…
Personally I’d prefer 1-2 finger to short-long swipe. Short-long has some advantages but requires more precision; also it seems to imply more of a relationship between the 2 items.
I’m not sure if anyone in the thread already knows this (I forget about it often), but the plus-in-a-circle at the bottom of the app opens the Quick Switcher. (This might not have been the case when the request was first posted.)
This is so obvious. I just don’t understand why Obsidian developers go to such lengths to make it so configurable with plugins, toolbars, hotkeys etc, then make just one gesture configurable. And it’s the most inappropriate gesture! To use the drag-down gesture, I have to scroll to the top and lose my place in the note.
Hot-keys don’t work on mobile. The mobile equivalent is gestures. Please please can we configure them?
Maybe it’s difficult to implement for some reason? What’s going on?