The Home screen is where you write a draft, add photos, recordings, files and places, and save it all to Obsidian with one tap.
Layout
From top to bottom:
| Area | What’s there |
|---|---|
| Header | History, Clear, What’s New and Settings. See Header buttons. |
| Properties | The Properties row. Tap it to show or hide the note Properties for the active Route. See Properties. |
| Editor | Your text, with attachments placed between paragraphs. See Editor and Attachments. |
| Toolbar | Formatting and editing actions. Shown only while the keyboard is open. See Toolbar. |
| Capture bar | Capture actions (Audio and the More (…) button by default), the Route button and the Save button. See Capture actions and Route picker. |
Header buttons
| Button | Icon | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | Clock | Left | Opens the list of saved drafts. See History. |
| Clear | Cross | Right | Removes all text and attachments from the draft. Property edits stay. You can bring the draft back with Undo on the Toolbar. Shown only when the draft has content, and hidden while a save is in progress. |
| What’s New | Bubble | Right | Shown after an update. Opens short stories about the new release. See Support and feedback. |
| Settings | Gear | Right, at the end | Opens Settings. See Settings reference. |
Save a draft
- Write your text or add attachments.
- Check the Route on the Route button. Tap it to pick another one. See Route picker.
- Tap Save (the arrow button on the right of the capture bar).
The Save button fills with the accent color when there’s something to save and a Route is active. It stays dimmed when the draft is empty, when a save is already running, or when there’s no Route.
While the draft is saving, a spinner appears where the Clear button is. Then:
- Success: a check mark, one short vibration, and the editor is cleared for your next draft. If the Route has Open Obsidian or Close app turned on, Quick Draft does that next. See Route actions.
- Failure: a cross and a burst of vibrations. Your draft stays in the editor, so nothing is lost. Open History to see which step failed.
If an action on the Route uses AI (for example {{auto}} titles or Auto Fill properties), the save waits for it. If you tapped Insert location on the Toolbar just before saving, the save also waits for the location to be inserted.
Tip
After your very first save, Quick Draft shows Your first draft is saved! with a shortcut to open the note in Obsidian. See First setup.
No active Route
If you have no enabled Routes, the Route button reads No active route and Save stays disabled. Tap No active route to open the Routes screen and create one. See Routes.
If setup isn’t finished (no Destination, no Route, or no Default Route for files), Quick Draft sends you back to the setup screens when you open it. See First setup.
Your draft is kept automatically
- Quick Draft saves your unsent draft on the device every 5 seconds, and also when you leave the app, clear the draft or remove an attachment.
- When you reopen the app, the draft comes back as you left it: text, Property edits and attachments.
- Attachments are restored from the media cache. If caching is off, or the cache was cleared, some attachments may not come back. See Drafts and cache.
Auto-hide the header and controls
To get more room for writing, the header and the capture bar can fade away while you read or write. See Auto-hide.