2023-05-05

The snag and the slug

After yesterday's Anki-to-Obsidian migration of 25,000 notes, I am starting to feel the sluggishness. The constant progress bar for loading, indexing and searching is irksome. Search is the most impacted.

On a positive note, there are people reporting vaults with 80K, 100K, even 280K files/notes. The 280K guy reported unbearable slowness. At the 100k level, OB seems still usable. But this means I should not even entertain migrating all of Anki's read-only notes, which constitutes the bulk.

An insight offered: use a different tool for search, such as DEVONthink.

And, don't get me started on the iOS app. Before it became fully “synced” and has all 25K files on the system, it had hung more often than not a few minutes into starting the app. The constantly flashing progress bar would simply freeze. I hope it'll all work snappily after the initial seeding of the iOS device.