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The fact that Notion’s search was so slow and not at all useful is part of what pushed me to Obsidian for knowledge management.
by sylens 5y ago
The fact that Notion’s search was so slow and not at all useful is part of what pushed me to Obsidian for knowledge management.
- qot 5y agoObsidian's search is also bad: it doesn't prioritize file names or headings over content. When you get past a certain number of notes, this becomes an issue. You might be trying to search for a concept you have a dedicated note of, but your search results are drowned out by normal usage of the word in other notes' contents.
- kirso 5y agoAgreed, the irrelevancy of results has been pointed out several times. It just uses simple string matching, but the issue is that most of the tools do that :/
- CGamesPlay 5y agoOne nice thing about the Obsidian model is that it's pretty easy to build external interior with it. I previously wrote a search engine similar to fzf but for full-text search in a directory of Markdown files, and you can hook it up to open Obsidian: https://github.com/cgamesplay/pilikino/tree/v1 https://github.com/cgamesplay/pilikino/tree/v1
- sylens 5y agoIt’s not great but at least it’s fast and shows me more context in its results. It’s a more effective search for me than Notion.
- throwaway675309 5y agoI use a quick switcher alternative to ameliorate this exact issue: https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/obsidian-another-quick-switcher https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/obsidian-another-quick-swi... Makes obsidian so much better.