jezza
March 10, 2025, 12:24pm
1
Hey,
Keen to take action on some suggestions! Cheers
Obsidian start-up time breakdown
Obsidian version: v1.8.9
Total startup time: 667,723ms
Initialization: 31,722ms
Vault (5,406 files): 9,407ms
Workspace (19 tabs, 15 deferred): 544,743ms
Core plugins: 2,162ms
Community plugins (41 active): 79,689ms
Tasks (v7.17.0): 7,248ms
ActivityWatch (v1.3.0): 5,365ms
Proletarian Wizard Task Manager (v1.3.2): 5,076ms
Time Ruler (v2.6.0): 4,709ms
Various Complements (v10.1.0): 3,039ms
Day Planner (v0.27.0): 2,519ms
Smart Connections (v2.5.2): 2,086ms
Text Format (v3.1.0): 2,065ms
Docxer (v2.1.1): 1,863ms
Dataview (v0.5.67): 1,817ms
Linter (v1.28.0): 1,578ms
Omnisearch (v1.26.1): 1,519ms
Recent Files (v1.7.4): 1,453ms
Templater (v2.9.3): 1,435ms
Markdown prettifier (v0.1.3): 1,405ms
Excel (v1.3.24): 1,274ms
Settings Search (v1.3.10): 1,262ms
Pandoc Plugin (v0.4.1): 1,200ms
Local Images Plus (v0.16.3): 1,151ms
Plugin Groups (v2.1.0): 1,147ms
Image in Editor (v2.2.6): 1,119ms
Paste As Html (v1.0.2): 1,021ms
Janitor (v1.0.7): 1,015ms
Task Progress Bar (v2.0.0): 970ms
Auto Note Mover (v1.2.0): 938ms
Periodic Notes (v0.0.17): 889ms
Style Settings (v1.0.9): 888ms
Markdown Table Editor (v0.3.1): 877ms
Copy document as HTML (v0.8.1): 875ms
Multi-Column Markdown (v0.9.1): 808ms
Natural Language Dates (v0.6.2): 766ms
Tag Wrangler (v0.6.1): 685ms
Workbench (v1.6.4): 569ms
Calendar (v1.5.10): 553ms
Plugin Changelogs (v1.2.2): 511ms
markdown export (v1.0.24): 471ms
Find orphaned files and broken links (v1.10.1): 451ms
Excel to Markdown Table (v0.4.0): 446ms
Automatically reveal active file (v1.0.3): 313ms
Find and replace in selection (v1.0.1): 305ms
Vault Changelog (v1.0.0): 253ms
Guapa
March 10, 2025, 12:53pm
2
I think you need to do a full install to get the updated Electron version.
Download - Obsidian
jezza
March 10, 2025, 2:32pm
3
Thanks!
Obsidian start-up time breakdown
Obsidian version: v1.8.9
Installer version: v1.8.9
Operating system: Windows 10 Enterprise 10.0.19044
- Total startup time: 145,038ms
- Initialization: 2,211ms
- Vault (5,419 files): 2,598ms
- Workspace (18 tabs, 14 deferred): 116,539ms
- Core plugins: 733ms
- Community plugins (55 active): 22,957ms
- Hotkeys++ (v0.2.7): 4,248ms
- Text Extractor (v0.5.2): 1,904ms
- Day Planner (v0.27.0): 1,211ms
- Time Ruler (v2.6.0): 1,128ms
- Tasks (v7.17.0): 1,103ms
- Various Complements (v10.1.0): 814ms
- Proletarian Wizard Task Manager (v1.3.2): 682ms
- Excel (v1.3.24): 676ms
- Copy document as HTML (v0.8.1): 575ms
- Local Images Plus (v0.16.3): 538ms
- Omnisearch (v1.26.1): 535ms
- Dataview (v0.5.67): 492ms
- Docxer (v2.1.1): 457ms
- Janitor (v1.0.7): 446ms
- Markdown Table Editor (v0.3.1): 446ms
- Text Format (v3.1.0): 427ms
- Markdown prettifier (v0.1.3): 412ms
- Smart Connections (v2.5.2): 356ms
- Style Settings (v1.0.9): 347ms
- Pandoc Plugin (v0.4.1): 291ms
- Templater (v2.9.3): 286ms
- Linter (v1.28.0): 283ms
- Plugin Groups (v2.1.0): 255ms
- Auto Note Mover (v1.2.0): 225ms
- Multi-Column Markdown (v0.9.1): 191ms
- Image in Editor (v2.2.6): 186ms
- Natural Language Dates (v0.6.2): 180ms
- Task Progress Bar (v2.0.0): 169ms
- Tag Wrangler (v0.6.1): 133ms
- Calendar (v1.5.10): 131ms
- Vault Statistics (v0.1.3): 118ms
- Recent Files (v1.7.4): 116ms
- Workbench (v1.6.4): 110ms
- ActivityWatch (v1.3.0): 108ms
- markdown export (v1.0.24): 103ms
- Find orphaned files and broken links (v1.10.1): 86ms
- Settings Search (v1.3.10): 84ms
- Plugin Changelogs (v1.2.2): 70ms
- Excel to Markdown Table (v0.4.0): 62ms
- Automatically reveal active file (v1.0.3): 57ms
- Find and replace in selection (v1.0.1): 55ms
- Vault Changelog (v1.0.0): 54ms
- Git (v2.31.1): 47ms
- Paste As Html (v1.0.2): 40ms
- Periodic Notes (v0.0.17): 37ms
- Quick Explorer (v0.2.13): 30ms
- Editor Syntax Highlight (v0.1.3): 30ms
- PDF to Markdown (v0.0.7): 26ms
- QuickAdd (v1.11.5): 24ms
- Advanced Tables (v0.22.1): 24ms
- Local REST API (v3.0.4): 24ms
- Hotkey Helper (v0.3.20): 24ms
- Quick Switcher++ (v5.0.0): 21ms
- Text Snippets (v0.1.2): 21ms
- Reading Time (v1.1.2): 0ms
and the second boot resulted in:
Obsidian start-up time breakdown
Obsidian version: v1.8.9
Installer version: v1.8.9
Operating system: Windows 10 Enterprise 10.0.19044
- Total startup time: 97,792ms
- Initialization: 213ms
- Vault (5,419 files): 1,253ms
- Workspace (18 tabs, 14 deferred): 62,874ms
- Core plugins: 212ms
- Community plugins (55 active): 33,240ms
- Git (v2.31.1): 20,931ms
- Hotkeys++ (v0.2.7): 3,101ms
- Time Ruler (v2.6.0): 705ms
- Day Planner (v0.27.0): 533ms
- Tasks (v7.17.0): 494ms
- Various Complements (v10.1.0): 465ms
- Proletarian Wizard Task Manager (v1.3.2): 450ms
- Docxer (v2.1.1): 378ms
- Excel (v1.3.24): 339ms
- Text Format (v3.1.0): 266ms
- Omnisearch (v1.26.1): 263ms
- Markdown Table Editor (v0.3.1): 243ms
- Janitor (v1.0.7): 242ms
- Local Images Plus (v0.16.3): 240ms
- Markdown prettifier (v0.1.3): 234ms
- Dataview (v0.5.67): 198ms
- Style Settings (v1.0.9): 186ms
- Smart Connections (v2.5.2): 186ms
- Linter (v1.28.0): 176ms
- Copy document as HTML (v0.8.1): 158ms
- Pandoc Plugin (v0.4.1): 155ms
- Natural Language Dates (v0.6.2): 150ms
- Plugin Groups (v2.1.0): 137ms
- Text Extractor (v0.5.2): 135ms
- Auto Note Mover (v1.2.0): 130ms
- Templater (v2.9.3): 124ms
- Image in Editor (v2.2.6): 120ms
- Periodic Notes (v0.0.17): 118ms
- Multi-Column Markdown (v0.9.1): 104ms
- Task Progress Bar (v2.0.0): 93ms
- Recent Files (v1.7.4): 90ms
- Tag Wrangler (v0.6.1): 88ms
- Calendar (v1.5.10): 83ms
- markdown export (v1.0.24): 65ms
- Settings Search (v1.3.10): 63ms
- Plugin Changelogs (v1.2.2): 59ms
- Workbench (v1.6.4): 58ms
- Find orphaned files and broken links (v1.10.1): 57ms
- Excel to Markdown Table (v0.4.0): 48ms
- ActivityWatch (v1.3.0): 47ms
- Find and replace in selection (v1.0.1): 41ms
- Automatically reveal active file (v1.0.3): 38ms
- Advanced Tables (v0.22.1): 34ms
- Paste As Html (v1.0.2): 33ms
- Local REST API (v3.0.4): 32ms
- Vault Changelog (v1.0.0): 32ms
- Editor Syntax Highlight (v0.1.3): 31ms
- Vault Statistics (v0.1.3): 29ms
- Hotkey Helper (v0.3.20): 25ms
- Quick Explorer (v0.2.13): 23ms
- QuickAdd (v1.11.5): 19ms
- Text Snippets (v0.1.2): 17ms
- PDF to Markdown (v0.0.7): 17ms
- Reading Time (v1.1.2): 1ms
I"ll see how my other laptop is behaving.
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Guapa
March 10, 2025, 2:56pm
4
Seems to be some improvement. Are the times more what you expect for the computer and OS? Doesn’t help you, but below are the start-up times for my MacBook Air, which has 8GB of RAM.
Obsidian start-up time breakdown
Obsidian version: v1.8.9
Total startup time: 1,057ms
Initialization: 169ms
Vault (7,621 files): 485ms
Workspace (16 tabs, 11 deferred): 245ms
Core plugins: 60ms
Community plugins (7 active): 98ms
Novel word count (v4.3.0): 32ms
Dataview (v0.5.67): 25ms
QuickAdd (v1.13.0): 21ms
Templater (v2.10.0): 11ms
Calendar (v1.5.10): 3ms
Settings Search (v1.3.10): 1ms
Auto Link Title (v1.5.5): 1ms
jezza
March 10, 2025, 3:41pm
5
Which cpu model is in your macbook air?
Realistically, the start time is abysmal. Nothing on my laptop loads slower than Obsidian.
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Enable restricted mode and restart obsidian. How does it go?
Guapa
March 10, 2025, 4:34pm
7
A base-model M3. Hope WhiteNoise can help you.
I just ran Settings > Files and links > Rebuild vault cache on my vault, and the start-up time improved to 939 ms, after restarting the app twice to let everything rebuild. Don’t know if it’s a recommended strategy for start-up issues.
jezza
March 11, 2025, 5:34am
8
its super quick.
Obsidian start-up time breakdown
Obsidian version: v1.8.9
Total startup time: 29,907ms
Initialization: 1,035ms
Vault (5,419 files): 1,052ms
Workspace (17 tabs, 13 deferred): 23,205ms
Core plugins: 126ms
Community plugins (55 active): 4,489ms
Text Extractor (v0.5.2): 708ms
Day Planner (v0.27.0): 691ms
Docxer (v2.1.1): 379ms
Excel (v1.3.24): 340ms
Markdown Table Editor (v0.3.1): 221ms
Omnisearch (v1.26.1): 209ms
Tasks (v7.18.1): 190ms
Time Ruler (v2.6.0): 187ms
Pandoc Plugin (v0.4.1): 157ms
Copy document as HTML (v0.8.1): 148ms
Image in Editor (v2.2.6): 142ms
Recent Files (v1.7.4): 100ms
Calendar (v1.5.10): 93ms
Dataview (v0.5.67): 84ms
Proletarian Wizard Task Manager (v1.3.2): 80ms
Smart Connections (v2.5.4): 69ms
Linter (v1.28.0): 61ms
Find orphaned files and broken links (v1.10.1): 59ms
Local Images Plus (v0.16.3): 58ms
Plugin Groups (v2.1.0): 54ms
Text Format (v3.1.0): 46ms
Markdown prettifier (v0.1.3): 40ms
Paste As Html (v1.0.2): 36ms
Natural Language Dates (v0.6.2): 36ms
Templater (v2.10.0): 35ms
Style Settings (v1.0.9): 34ms
Various Complements (v10.2.0): 32ms
Task Progress Bar (v3.0.1): 30ms
ActivityWatch (v1.3.0): 25ms
Multi-Column Markdown (v0.9.1): 16ms
Periodic Notes (v0.0.17): 10ms
Tag Wrangler (v0.6.1): 9ms
Workbench (v1.6.4): 8ms
Auto Note Mover (v1.2.0): 6ms
Settings Search (v1.3.10): 6ms
markdown export (v1.0.24): 5ms
Plugin Changelogs (v1.2.2): 4ms
Vault Changelog (v1.1.0): 3ms
Excel to Markdown Table (v0.4.0): 2ms
Find and replace in selection (v1.0.1): 2ms
Automatically reveal active file (v1.0.3): 1ms
There is a community plugin that can help you which plugins are causing the problem. Plugins - Obsidian
jezza
March 13, 2025, 2:14pm
11
Great thanks for that! I’ll check it out and report back once I figure it out.
I installed Obsidian-1.8.9.exe and exported from Evernote – then began to incrementally import – roughly 70GB of notes. As my data was divided in a handful of folders, the smaller folders imported easily. The last two folders dwarf the rest. Importing and start-ups are extremely slow. I run a dual boot system with Obsidian on each – Linux Mint and Windows 10. Both have access to shared space on a second drive (D drive - regular hard drive). Only the Importer plugin has been added. Some actions run overnight. That slow!
Jopp
March 16, 2025, 4:23pm
13
70gb isn’t little, you should import data step by step instead to overload the CPU with an avalanche of data.
Every computer needs to build first a looooong list, before it can start the copying process.
To load obsidian quicker: lazy plugin loader by Alan Grainger
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Evernote exported my largest folder (4,437 files at 51 GB) easily enough. But I can see how that might be a problem for Obsidian on the import side (based on your observations). My startup times are horrible, so I’ll check out Lazy Plugin Loader – Thanks!
Obsidian Lazy Plugin Loader could be a solution
Load plugins with a delay on Obsidian startup, so that you can get your app startup down into the sub-second loading time.
You can delay plugins you don’t need loaded straight away.
Windows boots quicker.
