Limitations of Obsidian?

[ThomasG]

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Hi to all, has obsidian limits in the number of notes? or a maximum of content in a note? Maybe, in the case of - no limits - there are limits by using ram memory or power of the cpu?
thanks for help ^^
Thomas

[rigmarole]

Do you have some context for this question?

Do you have a vault with a huge number of notes, or an example of a note that is enormous? Are you trying to import an existing knowledge-base? Are you planning on using Obsidian Sync? Details would help.

Otherwise, if you search the forum, there are some existing discussions:

Maximum Number of Notes in Vault

We stress tested against 20k Markdown files (found here: https://github.com/Zettelkasten-Method/10000-markdown-files), and it works okay on a relatively fast desktop computer. We’ve done extensive optimization on file explorer and search, but the initial loading and processing could take some time for sure. Haven’t seen real-world cases that would require more, unless you want to for example display Wikipedia inside Obsidian.

Note size limit

Is there a know official/unofficial size limit of a note. I have many small/atomic notes, but now I’m outlining them into a structure, and beginning actual draft writing. Consequently, my outline ‘note’ will become large over time. Probably over a gig just in text. Has anyone reported problems with big notes. Secondly, should I be doing this at all? Should I be outlining and drafting in another tool besides Obsidian? Thoughts?

Note size limit

Is there a know official/unofficial size limit of a note. I have many small/atomic notes, but now I’m outlining them into a structure, and beginning actual draft writing. Consequently, my outline ‘note’ will become large over time. Probably over a gig just in text. Has anyone reported problems with big notes. Secondly, should I be doing this at all? Should I be outlining and drafting in another tool besides Obsidian? Thoughts?

One single massive daily note instead of a note per day

Hello, interesting post. Thank you very much for your work here! Many good ideas. I think / I want the same function that the app logseq has. There you automatically have a journal with all notes in a chronological list. Each note can be a single note. Then you have both. I don’t like all my thoughts in one big and long note. But I like a journal with a scroll function and the possibility to search through everything. Loqseq also has the advantage that it lists all the notes in the journal and n…

Performance: Improve support for vaults with more than 1 Million links

Currently, Obsidian should be able to manage a vault with around 1 Million links among the notes. At 10 Million links, with a modern desktop computer, you will notice some slowdowns during note creation, deletion and especially when renaming/moving notes. 100 Million links is out-of-reach (will cause obsidian to crash).

[ThomasG]

ok, I use the obsidian sync but only for testing “look in the androidversion”
now I have couple of notes (maybe 100?) representing 150 sites of a book (lexika). I want to built up a knowledge base “kybernetik/complex systems” with a lot of links and more than 5000 sites of different books…
later I want use the graph sight and canvas too
I hope that helps.

Obsidian works very performantly on a old notebook with only 2 cpus and 12gb ram

[KevinRussell]

There won’t be any problem just having and using 5000 notes, unless maybe your computer/phone is truly prehistoric. On the other hand, the graph view will probably become very slow with 5000 nodes — though long before then, your graph will have become so crowded that it probably won’t be helping your eyes understand anything anyway.