The "exact" tests were made with 12k notes in my test vault and 10k in my personal vault. I haven't tested for 100k, but it would be interesting, do you have a vault or example of such a vault?
I know people hit the 10K really fast. 10K is the limit for which obsidian switches algorithms (personally, I don't understand how 10K db rows would be a problem, but ok).
It is very easy to run into 100k:
- external sources like the documentation for your programming languages, frameworks etc that come as markdown
- if you store every entity as a note, like you do with obsidian bases. Think task tracking, habit trackers, book collections
Tested it on 100k notes, the fast find plugin works quite well. a bit slower, instead of a 3ms search result on a 10k vault, it takes up to 300ms in some cases. Indexing was fine, but Obsidian's own index took forever to finalize, and the whole Obsidian app was not really made for such big vaults. But my plugin seems to be fine :)
it should be doing fine on any size, but I noticed OmniSearch hits limits around 10k notes for me, you could also use it way before and way over. But I guess if you have fewer than 4k, you might not need sophisticated search, except if you enjoy the added features such as preview and searching by title, headers, and semantics.
The fundamentals are fundamental for a reason. Don't go crazy with them, but triggers are great. (especially if you version control all your data definition language code)
Chandu Thota, VP @google on X:
> We are making Markdown files work natively across Google Drive and Docs.
> You can now preview .md files in Drive, open them in Docs, edit them, comment on them, and collaborate without converting the file into a Google Doc!
This page has been live long before AI appeared, I used Quartz [1] v3, now at v5. But added some features I like with AI, yes, but still keeping my beloved color theme and web style as I had it for a long, long time. The whole code for the second brain (ssp.sh/brain/*) is on GitHub, in case you want to check it [2], but you can also see the "Changelog" in the footer to see recent visual changes. But I'd be curious what makes you think it's AI-generated?
good point, thanks for the honesty. I will change that, I think the color inside pop up make sense (red removed, green added words), but the green dot does not add value.
I've noticed a similar phenomenon: getting tired of networks and algorithms. I wrote a short essay with my thoughts on "Well Being in Times of Algorithms" [1].
They have one of the best articles out there, and now the page is great too. Fun and innovative.
My favorite article, in case you haven't read it already, is local-first [1], or I recently read the embark, dynamic documents for making plans. These always give me so much inspiration.
Wow, embark is very well done! I feel like there is some sort of solution space between notes, whiteboards, jupyter notebooks and Arcan FE that could make knowledge organization much easier, but it's such a huge space to even comprehend in the first place I can only ever hold part of the solution in my head.
I also enjoyed Muse[1], which was made available in the iOS app store, and is now being maintained as "Allume"[2] (an unnamed company bought the Muse name).
Essentially a digital pinboard, it was an interesting experiment in "designed for tablet" UX and was developed far enough to be an app. The gesture based UX, nested board, PDF reader, and transclusion of PDF fragments are all interesting ideas.
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