I mean in your linked thread it says:
I have some 15K notes in Obsidian and it runs fine.
I personally have around 4000 notes in Obsidian and it runs fine 🤷
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graphito@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
To those who came here just to shill obsidian for some reason (drop me a dm! I also wanna get paid for my comments!) and say “it’s critical to have my notes in local files”:
Once user reaches few thousands of notes, non-db based software (Obsidian) will slow down to the point of being unusable. There’s no workaround to this, since the bottleneck is storage speed
asap@lemmy.world 3 months ago
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
This isn’t really the case though. Obsidian uses a database for metadata, and therefore can extremely rapidly display, search, and find the correct file to open. It generally only opens a handful of files at a time.
I’ve used obsidian notes repos with hundreds of thousands of notes with no discernable performance impact. Something LogSeq certainly couldn’t do.
The complaint in the post you’ve linked is a) anecdotal and b) about the import process itself getting slow, which makes sense as obsidian is extracting the metadata.
I’ll always champion OSS software over proprietary, but claiming this is a huge failing of the obsidian design is just completely false. A metadata database fronting a flat filesystem architecture is very robust.
graphito@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
So you’re telling me that software which doesn’t have official export stores my notes metadata in proprietary database format?
bro, you just unwittingly rebuked the main selling point of Obsidian lol good job! I should take a note of it next time lol
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kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Tell me, are you aware of the distinction between content and metadata?
graphito@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
sorry mate, I can’t get what you’re alluding to. Pls state your position clearer
asap@lemmy.world 3 months ago
stores my notes metadata in proprietary database format?
Obsidian note metadata is in YAML in the markdown file itself. That’s about as non-proprietary as it gets.
Not sure why you hate Obsidian. I don’t love it and would switch to a FOSS alternative if there was something comparable, but at least I’m not making crap up about it.
homegrowntechie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
For reference, I have over 300,000 notes in Trilium, and it is runs smoothly 👍
paddirn@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I have encountered this issue before when I tried using Obsidian my RPG pdf collection (10,000s of files), would not recommend. I do still like Obsidian and will keep using it, but would something like Trillium work as a sort of PDF library software for a massive amount of files like that? The main need is to be able sort/categorize game systems using tags, link to pdfs, and maybe have some sort of Dataview-esque query capabilities. Zotero is the least worst option, but it still has some annoyances for me and I’ve still been looking for something that could help me organize better. I know this is billed as a note-taking app, so it’s a weird use-case, but Obsidian was pretty close to being a decent solution, if not for the slow speed issues.
StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What is it with Lemmy users assuming anyone who disagrees with them is astroturfing or a shill.
graphito@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Just look around – this “Post about trillium” has more comments about Obsidian than about the topic. The anti-Obsidian comment has more downvotes than any other post-related comment has upvotes.
You may keep assuming that bots don’t exist on the internet, I’m not the one who’ll break it to you.
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