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Suggestion -- addressing friction at initial note-capture stage can help a lot with adopting Obsidian. As an example, I was looking to see if there's an easy way to capture links (with titles) I find while browsing on iOS. I saw that Obsidian doesn't show up in the iOS share-sheet. Ok, so I tried the next best thing -- copy the link + title (via an iOS shortcut), and then I tried pasting it into Obsidian -- and I faced a wall of choices -- which folder? which file?

This "initial capture friction/anxiety" has been an issue with Notion. Roam tried to provide a simple "Quick-capture" but it's not great. Mem.ai addressed this problem head-on and they make quick entry dead-simple: on desktop, you just start typing anywhere and it enters into a new note, and from mobile you can text anything (including sharing links etc) to a specific number and it goes to a new note.



Bear is my primary notes app on iOS because of this. Share to Bear as a markdown-formatted titled link or the full web page content, and from there I can also prepend or append to an existing note.


Interesting. I wonder what makes the share-sheet feature so hard to implement.




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