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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

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

Al-Khwarizmi 3y 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?
- machomaster 3y 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.
  - realfeel78 3y ago
    What hardware/OS are you using? I have a shitload of plugins but it's lightning fast for me on Mac.
    - machomaster 3y 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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realfeel78 3y ago
Slow on what hardware/OS? It's instantaneous for me on Mac, but can be painfully clunky on iPhone.
ezst 3y 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.

Al-Khwarizmi 3y 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?

machomaster 3y 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.
- realfeel78 3y ago
  What hardware/OS are you using? I have a shitload of plugins but it's lightning fast for me on Mac.
  - machomaster 3y 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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realfeel78 3y ago

Slow on what hardware/OS? It's instantaneous for me on Mac, but can be painfully clunky on iPhone.

ezst 3y 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.