Currently, many commands fight for space in the mobile toolbar. The design pattern used by other mobile note taking apps is to have an always present toolbar with more global commands then a note/page specific toolbar which typically has more specific commands like text formatting. I think this is a useful paradigm for grouping commands to reduce clutter. To recreate this in Obsidian we could add the option for a second mobile toolbar to be present which would have commands independent of the first. Users could optionally toggle this toolbar as always present to recreate the design pattern in the other mobile notetaking apps. So one toolbar could be active all the time then another replaces or is placed on top of it when the keyboard pops up.
Here are examples from Evernote, Notion, and Apple Notes of their mobile toolbars:
Currently, many commands fight for space in the mobile toolbar. The design pattern used by other mobile note taking apps is to have an always present toolbar with more global commands then a note/page specific toolbar which typically has more specific commands like text formatting. I think this is a useful paradigm for grouping commands to reduce clutter. To recreate this in Obsidian we could add the option for a second mobile toolbar to be present which would have commands independent of the first. Users could optionally toggle this toolbar as always present to recreate the design pattern in the other mobile notetaking apps. So one toolbar could be active all the time then another replaces or is placed on top of it when the keyboard pops up.
Here are examples from Evernote, Notion, and Apple Notes of their mobile toolbars: