Sync toolbar between mobile & Mac

[TheCyberfreak]

Use case or problem

Currently, the toolbar isn’t synced, but with the feature that syncs the toolbar layout, you’ll feel right at home in your Vault on all platforms

Proposed solution

Synchronizing the displayed icons and their order

Current workaround (optional)

The icons are manually adjusted on each device

[WhiteNoise]

There is no toolbar in the desktop app?!? I am. It sure what you are talking about

[TheCyberfreak]

What would you call that, then?

[WhiteNoise]

ok, this is left side “ribbon” and it is not present in the mobile app.

[TheCyberfreak]

It’s also available in the mobile app. So, the synchronization would be…

[ariehen]

The ribbon icon order and displayed/hidden state is saved in the .obsidian/workspace.json file on desktop and in .obsidian/workspace-mobile.json on mobile.

Obsidian desktop uses only the first and Obsidian mobile uses only the second.

There may be a FR to combine them, but for now they are separate for desktop and mobile.

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pic of workspace.json here:

What does workspace.json do?

It saves your workspace layout so that the vault will reopen in the same state that you left it in. The contents of workspace.json in one of my vaults: What notes are open in what tab or tab groups and the layout of windows, sidebars, etc. What items are in your ribbon Last opened files [Screenshot 2023-09-29 at 2.34.56] If you don’t want to sync it, that should be fine, but the state of the above won’t be the same between the desktops.

[TheCyberfreak]

I have now also compared Mac and iPad, which should align according to the workspace.json. It does display the same content, but not in the same order. The whole feature somehow doesn’t seem to work properly…