Welcome to the Quick Draft for Obsidian Wiki!
Here you’ll find guides, tips, and best practices to help you get the most out of the app. Learn how to capture notes quickly, customize your setup, and adapt Quick Draft to match your unique note-taking workflow.
Quick Draft for Obsidian is an unofficial companion app for the Obsidian® note-taking platform. Its purpose is simple: to make capturing ideas from your mobile device faster and more seamless. Whether you’re jotting down a thought, saving a link, or recording a voice note, Quick Draft helps you get content into your vault with minimal friction.
Disclaimer: Obsidian® and its logo are trademarks of Obsidian.md. They are used here solely for identification purposes. All rights remain with the respective owner.
Basic Terms
Destination
A Destination is the place in your vault where notes land. It can be either:
- File - for appending or prepending content to existing notes.
- Folder - for creating new notes or saving media. Think of it as the “target” for your captured drafts.
Route
A Route is the how. Routes define the rules and actions Quick Draft applies when sending content to your Destination(s). You can think of them as “instructions for delivery.” Routes are displayed on Quick Draft main screen.
Examples of what Routes can do:
- Save drafts to multiple Destinations.
- Do some automated text formatting.
- Apply a Templates before saving.
Template
A Template wraps your captured text with predefined formatting. Templates are designed for lightweight structuring—things like timestamps, dividers, or headings.
- The special placeholder
{{content}}marks where your captured text will go. - Other tokens (like
{{HH:mm}}or{{ts}}) can be added to automatically insert dynamic values.
Example Template:
{{date}}
{{content}}
Captured note:
Example note
Result in Obsidian:
2025-08-29 08:29:29
Example note
⚠️ Note: Creating entire notes from a full Obsidian template (like Daily Notes) is a different use case. That feature will be covered separately.