[Al-Khwarizmi]

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?

[machomaster]

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.

[realfeel78]

What hardware/OS are you using? I have a shitload of plugins but it's lightning fast for me on Mac.

[machomaster]

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