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by gangstead 301 days ago
Is there a way in Obsidian to have a virtual file separator like `---` in yaml documents?

For bases to work I need to split my stuff up into tiny documents but I'd prefer to have one big document with separate sections. For example I keep one document `book-recommendations.md` with many small sections for books I'd like to read. I can't search through that with bases unless I split those out into many small files in with one recommendation each.
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TechPlasma 301 days ago
This is my main complaint for Bases. It forces you to split your data into many many small files.

I don't need entire files for each individual book/movie/task I want to manage.

They'll have maybe 4-5 properties at most with not much content in them.

File system, and syncing operations will take a massive hit if I have to manage that many files.

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er4hn 301 days ago
How many files do you have? At what scale did you see this being a problem?

I'm a fan of Obsidian, not affiliated with them, but my experience with basic file syncing like syncthing or git is that you should be able to easily get up into the ten's of thousands of files without an issue.

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diggan 301 days ago
The Obsidian Sync (official) plugin isn't very clever with its syncing, it does one file at a time, seemingly new requests for each file.

I recently had to sync a new Obsidian vault from scratch, a vault with thousands of files, and it took minutes to complete because of this, even though most files are a couple of KB at most.

Easy to fix and low hanging fruit, but still an issue for us with many files in our vaults.

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TechPlasma 301 days ago
I don't want to manage that many files. I'll fully admit that I'll hit my limits before the computer cares.
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deafpolygon 300 days ago
Same here, but the problem is bigger than that. Having to manage a ton of tiny files makes it easier to lose tiny bits of data. What happens if a file changes, gets overwritten and you don't notice? It's much easier to 'version' a single larger file than many hundreds (thousands?) of tiny files containing 4-5 lines at most.
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bluechar 300 days ago
The popular Obsidian Dataview plugin enables that and much more (instead of using Bases)

https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview

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oliverchan2024 301 days ago
Welcome use org-sueprtag, a package with org-mode and Eamacs. It's feature org-sueprtag-view-table provide similar function.

And it design for a big document, with many nodes in it, it will filter this nodes by tags and properties.

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