
Jeff Cours
I've used Obsidian for a couple years. It's a very good note-taking app. Vault (a paid add-on) makes syncing across devices effortless, but other cloud solutions also work. Composing in markdown's fast: your hands never leave the keyboard. It stores notes in markdown, so there's no lock-in: you can open them in a text editor. Once a note is synced to your device, you can reliably get to it even when you're offline. Quirks are in tables (a bit clunky) and the outline (hard to find on phones).
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Sergey Balasev-Samarski
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Really, really good app! The slow startup speed is fixed now! Both, the desktop and the mobile apps start pretty fast. The only thing to improve, IMO, is the finicky "Send to" Obsidian on Android. It often reloads the app every time it's used, even if I just switched from the app (its battery settings are set to "no restrictions", so it shouldn't be killed). Another killer useful feature on mobile would be a quick note feature!
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Dynalist Inc.
April 23, 2025
This should be fixed now! Can you confirm? Thank you for your feedback and patience.

Raistlin Smits
ALMOST perfect. I have been using Obsidian and it's PC version for almost a year and half and I don't know how I could ever go back to writing and note taking without it. However, the mobile version lacks the ability to export notes into other formats such as PDF. If this got added for the android version in the same way that PC can, I will change my review to 5 Stars.
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Dynalist Inc.
August 29, 2026
Thank you for your Raistlin suggestion. This is on our roadmap!