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by blackhaj7 849 days ago
I use Obsidian but it is unbearably slow upon when opening the app for me, to the point where I want to move away.

It’s also dare-I-say-it too customizable for me. I just want it to look nice and do standard notes stuff without having to spend hours tinkering.

The only thing keeping me is that it is just markdown. I don’t like the idea of being locked in with the proprietary formats of other apps
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Al-Khwarizmi 849 days ago
Curious, I have starting using Obsidian recently and one of the things that I love about it is that it's lightning fast on my systems, including startup time. Much snappier than other note-taking programs I've used, and than 95% of the programs altogether (only the likes of Notepad are faster).

Maybe it's because I don't have many notes yet and it becomes a behemoth if the vault gets too big?

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machomaster 849 days ago
Usually the slowness of Obsidian is caused by plugins.

Try to have 50+ plugins and you will feel the slowness even in a small vault.

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realfeel78 849 days ago
What hardware/OS are you using? I have a shitload of plugins but it's lightning fast for me on Mac.
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machomaster 848 days ago
Intel Core i7-4790K, 32GB, Linux.

I currently have 147 community plugins installed. Is your shitload bigger than my shitload? :-)

I don't have all of them enabled though. Only about 2/3. :-)

It's not only the number of enabled plugins that matters. Some graphical plugins eat almost no resources. But then there are other plugins that are constantly rescanning files and O is not necessarily "n", but worse than that.

You can start with setting up the following plugins to their full potential and see how it goes. :-) Breadcrumbs Dataview Dynamic Table of Contents Filename Heading Sync Juggl Link Favicons Linter Omnisearch Spaced Repetition Supercharged links

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ezst 848 days ago
May I suggest giving Trilium notes a try? It's like opensource obsidian plus typed notes plus self hostable sync plus a web frontend for places where you can't install it.
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realfeel78 849 days ago
Slow on what hardware/OS? It's instantaneous for me on Mac, but can be painfully clunky on iPhone.
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