25 Platform Guide

ObsiKO is just as powerful whether you're on the web, desktop, or a mobile device, but there are inevitably a few small differences due to each platform's quirks. Want to find out what's different before you dive in? 😉

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🌐 Light and Anywhere: Web (Browser)

• You'll need a smart browser that supports the modern File System Access API, like Chrome or Edge.
• The first time you open your folder, it'll ask, "Can I access this folder?" — just go ahead and hit Allow!
• The downside: due to browser limitations, Korean spell check, word-spacing correction, and the AI full agent (research gathering, automatic vault editing, etc.) aren't available yet. 🥲
• The upside: English spell check (LanguageTool) runs great on the web too, and thanks to ObsiKO's proxy, the Urimalsaem dictionary works on the web as long as you enter an API key. And just add an API key to unlock AI chat-only mode (conversation, reading documents, viewing images, web search, organizing notes) too! → Chat-only Mode (Mobile & Web)
• Search by meaning works on the web too! The search model runs inside your browser, so it needs no AI key and sends nothing over the internet — everything stays on your device. Just build the index once from 'Semantic search index' in Settings ▸ Convenience! (The first indexing takes a while as it downloads the model.) → Search & Navigation

🖥 The Full, Powerful Experience: Desktop (Mac/Windows)

• If you want the best ObsiKO experience, the desktop app is the way to go, no question!
• A smart AI agent, word-spacing correction, the trusty Urimalsaem dictionary, even Git integration for developers! This is the most complete environment where you can enjoy 100% of ObsiKO's magic. 🚀

📱 A Miracle in Your Hand: iPhone / iPad

• Because of Apple's strict sandbox policy, you need to pick a single folder in the Files app to use as your vault. (Any folder you like works fine!)
• On narrow phone screens, to save space, the 3 view modes (source/reading/focus) are all tucked into one tidy dropdown menu. Pretty slick, right? → View Modes & Korean Input
• Floating formatting button: When the keyboard comes up, a small round button appears in a corner of the screen. Tap it and formatting tools unfold — bold, headings, lists, checkboxes, undo, and more — tap again to collapse them. A tiny button that stays out of your way! (Choose Off/Auto/Always in settings → Settings & Themes)
• You can quickly drop photos or files from your gallery into a document or mind map with a drag-and-drop, or a copy-paste. Really convenient!
• Added an image card to your mind map? Stretch it with two fingers to zoom in on just the image inside the card. ✌️
• Unfortunately, direct file downloads and printing are blocked by Apple's policy. Instead, we'll safely save the exported file right into your vault folder — open it from the Files app or Safari to share it! (Notes are saved as HTML files.) → Export
• 🤖 AI on your phone now too!: The full agent, with research gathering and automatic vault editing, is still desktop-only, but just add an API key and you can chat in AI chat-only mode on iPhone/iPad too — have it read documents and images, search the web, and even organize your notes! The key is stored safely, encrypted in the iOS Keychain. → Chat-only Mode (Mobile & Web)
• Search by meaning works on your phone too: it runs right on the device, so no AI key is needed. Just build the index once from 'Semantic search index' in Settings ▸ Convenience! → Search & Navigation
• 🎙️ Transcription, free of charge: When turning a recording or voice memo into a note, iPhone and iPad use Apple's on-device speech recognition. No AI key, no fees, and your audio never leaves the device (no length limit either). If you do have a key, you can pick the more accurate cloud transcription instead. → Korean Writing Tools
• ⌚ Quick memos from Apple Watch: Install the ObsiKO app on your watch and you can dictate a memo straight from your wrist. Even if your iPhone is off or out of range — once they reconnect, the queued memos make their way into your vault on their own (nothing gets lost!). 🎉
• Floating formatting button & input above the keyboard: When the keyboard pops up, the AI chat input box rises right above it too, so it never gets covered.
• Home screen widgets: iPhone and iPad get Shortcut, Shortcut+Search, Focus Timer, Recent Documents, Calendar, and Schedule widgets too (including Lock Screen widgets!). The checkboxes on the Schedule widget let you tick off to-dos without even opening the app. Widget colors follow your app theme. 🎨
• Font-app fonts work too: Tap 'Load installed fonts' in Settings ▸ Fonts and the system font picker appears — letting you pick even fonts installed via font apps and use them in the editor. Importing .ttf files directly works as well!
• Siri & the Shortcuts app 🗣️: Four ObsiKO actions are available in the Shortcuts app (and Siri) — Quick Memo (speak or type a note into your vault without opening the app!), New Note, New Mind Map, and Search. Just say "Hey Siri, quick memo in ObsiKO" and it's captured! You can also chain them into shortcut automations (e.g., open a fresh journal every morning).

🤖 Now on Android Too! (Phone / Tablet)

• Any folder you want as a vault: Pick a folder from device storage or a cloud folder in the folder picker and use it as your vault right away. Opening an Obsidian vault folder works fine too!
• Start right away, no folder needed: Just tap 'Create a new file' on the welcome screen and a vault is automatically created in the device's default storage. You can always come back to it via 'Default Storage' at the top of the recent folders menu.
• 6 home screen widgets: You can place a Shortcut (2×2), Shortcut+Search, Focus Timer (pick a time with −/+ and start right away!), Recent Documents, Calendar, and Schedule widget on your home screen. On the Schedule widget, tap the checkbox to complete a to-do without even opening the app. Widget colors follow your app theme. 🎨
• Clip via Share: Tap Share ▸ ObsiKO Clip in Chrome or elsewhere, and the page's body text gets tucked into a Markdown note! You can also send it straight from the menu that appears when you select text in another app. → Web Clipper
• Immersive mode: Hides the system bars at the top and bottom (status bar, gesture bar) and uses the whole screen. Want to check the time? Just swipe lightly from the edge of the screen — it appears briefly, then disappears again.
• 📸 Pulling text out of photos (OCR), right on the device: Extracting text from an image uses the same engine as Google Lens (ML Kit), running right on your phone. No AI key, no fees, and the photo never leaves the device. (If you need a more accurate result, you can still pick 'Read with AI'.)
• ✍️ Font support: In Settings ▸ Fonts you can import .ttf font files directly, and 'Load installed fonts' lets you pick from the system fonts already on your device. (Fonts bought from the Samsung Theme Store are protected, so they can't be loaded.)
• 🖼️ Insert GIFs and stickers straight from the keyboard: Tap the GIF, sticker, or image button on your keyboard and that image is inserted right into your text. It's saved as a file in your vault and dropped in at the cursor.
• 📝 Set as your default notes app (Android 14+): In Settings ▸ System integration you can register ObsiKO as the default notes app. Then system note actions — the 'Note' button on the lock screen or in Quick Settings, S Pen screen memos — all open a new ObsiKO note!
• On a tablet: You can pin the right sidebar with the pin (📌) button to dock it next to the editor (same as on iPad). Drag the edge to resize its width too.
• Search by meaning works here too — it runs on the device and needs no AI key. → Search & Navigation

🌟 Tips That Apply Everywhere (This Is the Key Part!)

• Every note you create in ObsiKO is just a plain, well-behaved .md (text) file or a .canvas file.
• So if you set your devices to share the same folder (like an iCloud Drive folder), you can experience the miracle of picking up on your iPhone in the bathroom exactly where you left off writing on your Mac!
• And of course, the last folder and tabs you had open are faithfully remembered and restored on each device. → Getting Started
• Come across great material while browsing the web? Tuck it right into your vault on the spot with the Web Clipper! On desktop browsers, use the right-click menu or toolbar (even region screen capture!); on iPhone, iPad, and Android, clip instantly with the share button. 📎 → Web Clipper

🔗 Open ObsiKO straight from another app (obsiko://)

Widgets, Siri shortcuts, and the share button all call ObsiKO through an address. It looks like https://, except it starts with obsiko://. Drop one into the Shortcuts app or any app's "open URL" field and you can use them exactly the same way!

There's also obsiko://clip, which the Web Clipper uses to hand its catch over to ObsiKO — the share button handles that one for you, so you'll never need to type it. → Web Clipper

💡 Ideas: automate "open obsiko://daily at 8am every morning" in the Shortcuts app and today's journal is waiting the moment you pick up your phone. ⏰ Or put an obsiko://timer?minutes=25&start=1 icon on your home screen for one-tap pomodoro. 🍅

🔒 Only the actions listed here work. Opening, creating, searching, timers — the fixed set — and a link can't edit or delete the contents of a note. Hand ObsiKO an address it doesn't recognize and it simply does nothing. 😌

☁️ Sync across devices with a cloud folder (iCloud · Dropbox · Google Drive)

ObsiKO can use any cloud folder as its vault (you don't need to turn on any separate sync feature — just open that same folder on multiple devices and that is your sync). It also quietly handles the little quirks of cloud folders for you.

• Files not downloaded yet? No worries ☁️: iCloud and friends sometimes evict the contents of files you haven't used to save space. Such files show up in the file tree with a small ☁️ badge, and tapping (opening) one automatically re-downloads it. (They never vanish from the tree!)
• Pre-download entire vault: hit Settings ▸ Convenience ▸ 'Pre-download entire vault · Download now' to fetch every not-yet-downloaded file at once. It's a good idea to pre-download so the graph view and full-text search work properly.
• Keep files downloaded: turn on 'Keep files downloaded' in the same Settings ▸ Convenience, and whenever a file gets evicted it's automatically re-downloaded, keeping your vault fully local. (Intact even offline!)
• Edited the same note on two devices? — Conflict notice: if you edit the same note on two devices, the cloud sometimes creates a conflict copy. ObsiKO detects this and shows a small banner at the top, letting you choose [Merge] · [Compare] · [Keep mine] · [Take theirs] (it never overwrites your edits without asking).
• ✨ Don't throw either side away — [Merge]: "Keep mine" and "Take theirs" both mean discarding one side's work entirely. If you wrote one paragraph on your phone and five on your laptop, either button hurts. So hit [Merge] and pick what to keep line by line.
• If you edited different places, there's almost nothing to do. Lines that exist on only one side are kept from both automatically, and ObsiKO tells you: "You edited different places. Both sides are kept — just review and apply." Skim it, press [Merge as shown], done!
• You're only asked about spots edited differently on both sides. Each one offers [Mine] · [Theirs] · [Both] · [Neither], and your choice is highlighted immediately so you can see which side wins. The default is the safe one: yours.
• Long stretches of identical text are folded away as ⋯ 12 identical lines ⋯ — so you can focus on what actually differs. 😉
• The merged result is saved into the original note and the conflict copy is cleaned up. Changed your mind? [Cancel] or Esc backs out with nothing touched.
• 💡 Open a file that hasn't downloaded yet (because you're offline) and it tells you "This file isn't downloaded yet" — so don't mistake it for an empty note! Open it again when you're online and it downloads normally.

These work on iPhone, iPad, and Mac when using a cloud folder (on Android and the web, the folder provider handles it). → For how to open a folder, see Getting Started

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