Background: Current (Android) mobile usage is using lots of shortcut links mainly to forms (opened full screen in Chrome so feels like webapp) added to homescreen.
Biggest gaps:
Offline capture - as many have said - could be limited to capture via forms
Share data to (Fibery) - scenerio: I often capture a link for reading later etc having Fibery app appearing in Androidās Sharesheet would reduce interactions
I forgot to mention: the inbox!
I would want to be able to see and manage notifications from mobile. Like marking them as done, deleting, or replying to comments
For quick notes and offline notes, I think that having a dedicated space like My Space that would work like Google keep would do it. It would be the only part where you can add notes offline for later synching. If it is like in Google Keep with a field for the name and a rich text field, it would be kind of easy to transfer them to other kind of entities when youāre back online. Just a thought to make things easier for the development team.
When Iām on the move or in a meeting, I donāt like writing text in the browser or inside an app because it isnāt fast or responsive enough. I donāt like slowness because itās distracting me from the present conversation or task.
Instead I often find I resort to using Bear Notes on Mac or iPhone to capture the info before I drop it back into Fibery later. Bear Notes is a markdown editor that syncs in the background via Appleās Cloudkit so it always feels āNative Fastā. Encourage you to check out the user experience from a responsiveness POV compared to something like Notionās app which is just unusable.
Another case here is that I want to be able to search for something. I might be having a conversation and need to grab the tasks assigned to that person, or search a topic. Again this action is happening while someone waits for me so speedy native UI would be the main thing I care about.
So, Fibery has actually gotten WAY better for mobile over 2024. For myself, the ONLY things I have to use desktop for are:
Editing formulas
Editing automation scripts
Comfortable rich text editing (but itās workable on mobile)
Drag and drop reordering of space/folder hierarchy.
Editing the filters, sorts, and colors of a view (this can technically be done on mobile in ādesktop modeā).
So there are a simple few, what I would call, bugs, that could greatly improve the experience on mobile:
This thing:
The editing bar in rich text areas (I would recommend telling mobile devices to override their built in pop up editing buttons, and build them into the Fibery editor bar, like Cut, Copy, Select All). Also, the rich text editing bar needs width responsiveness on tiny mobile screens
The filter, sort, and color menus are not horizontally responsive, and canāt be edited on mobile. The Items and Fields menus are fine.
So then bugs aside, my main wish is just for mobile integration, which to me, includes the following:
The Fibery URL Scheme is based on space/entity names, not a static ID. So bookmarks become invalid if an entity or space changes names.
If weāre talking about a PWA, add OS-level shortcuts to the main parts of Fibery, like notifications, search, a userās favorites, and possibly allow user-defined actions like creating instances of a specific type (a shortcut to open a modal to create a Tasks/Action Item entity). Expose common app actions as shortcuts - Progressive web apps | MDN
Improve the rich text experience, with better handling of the various enter/return keys on mobile (sometimes it breaks todo lists, or wonāt create a new paragraph, etc). A better rich text experience on mobile will make Fibery a better Notion and Obsidian note taking platform as well.
Make the entity picker more robust. Off the top of my head, I think the single-entity selector popup/search UI struggles on mobile.
Share to Fibery. Mentioned above, but registering Fibery as able to receive items from Android share dialog would be very cool. Apps like AnyType (and I assume notion) do this very well.
New here. Would love to chat. I have a training session scheduled for February 25th from 9:30am to 10:25am and will have my own build in place by then (studying YouTube videos as well). Am replacing Keep, Notion, Google Drive and sharing across several other apps with Fibery and Mem. Tremendous advantages. My partners and I work on AI assisted startups for small companies and if we do the work they get the benefits. Your software has a learning curve but once configured and maintained (our job) the clients can use it with ease.
Take a look at Kotlin Compose and Kotlin Multiplatform. Sharing UI (KC) and Business Logic (KMP) between different platforms can make life a lot easier. Itās getting more and more mature. Personally, I intend to learn about this, long term goal next to my full-time freelancing), so I canāt say that I tested it yet but I will soon (as a client also needs a mobile app prototype so that is a perfect opportunity to try this), but I think itās doable.
Why is it nice: you save a lot of time building and maintaining for different platforms, you can use the same code for Android and iOS, and Desktop and Web. And add your own code where needed. If you want to target a lot of different platforms then itās a good idea to take a look at it! Also, I find Kotlin a nice language to program in, and a lot of people think that. But it of course depends what you are used to in the team.
If you are mostly web developers there is also a case to be made to make the app in a web framework like React Native.
It would be nice to have the whole Fibery system available, with all functionality, which would be more useful perhaps on a tablet but perhaps also on mobile when you are on the go with your phone.
But it would also be useful to have very limited functionality, like a collection app where I can fill in just a few things in a form, or check just the information I need. Something I can completely customize. For example, if I can make a picture of a receipt to put into my bookkeeping Database in Fibery, with the right category and everything, then that would be nice. This is what I wanted to build myself and perhaps I will if you guys donāt I can give more usecases.
Glad to have been able to share some of these ideas, curious what you think and I want to share more ideas soon! Will also read through this whole thread.
The Fibery editor is the second-best editor I have used. But one thing is missing, and editors affect the quality of life so much Here is the missing element - most useful on mobile OS devices. Draggable on desktop, button-driven on mobile is quick and powerful.
Iām late to the party here, however Iām evaluating Fibery and the mobile deficit is big.
However it seems like the app works pretty well in a mobile browser. Focusing on upgrading that experience seems much easier and will have shorter term benefit, while you develop the apps.
First, just add the meta tags for PWA! That way we can add an app like experience without the URL bar.
Second, tweak a few things like mobile icon size, and the single tap hover, double tap click behavior.
Thereās probably other things, however these are a good start!
Even if there is a native app, it will have limited functionality, so having a more usable web app would be huge!
I can give more usecases.
Here is the missing element - most useful on mobile OS devices. Draggable on desktop, button-driven on mobile is quick and powerful.