Interesting. I absolutely ~do~ want an index. Why wouldn’t almost everyone?
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I was told that meta data, tags, these various things are already indexed. This was on discord last week. But full text is not. So why not take it to the logical next step?
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loads of other KM/CRM/NOTE programs do have full indexing for important reasons. Outlook. Thunderbird. Most of the various CRMs. I don’t know about evernote. EssentialPIM uses FirebirdSQL (or maybe SQLite by now?). These are not expensive and cumbersome, and resource heavy. TheBrain uses built in Windows indexing that’s already there and piggybacks on it to deliver almost instantaneous results. Full text.
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Why put to some other resource a task which can be/should be inside the app you’re already in? I find it hard to imagine this being anything other than a critical function: finding, somewhere, the important information you’re looking for in your vault, so that you can continue carefully crafting the masterpiece you’re working on.
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This multi vault/nested vault thing might be seen as an excuse for bad/limited performance (in this narrow category of function). Why would you subdivide, separate, and otherwise silo your information? I mean, you could, and you should have the ability to, if you wanted, but not because you’re forced to because you’re soon going to hit some performance ceiling on finding your stuff, or navigating your reams of critical information?
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To sum it up, isn’t all this about finding? I mean, isn’t google’s success (not the advertising part) because they realized the Excite and Yahoo (et al) trying to make neat little indexes and categories wasn’t working, and that soon there will be so much information that we’ll be spending most of our time categorizing it all, and why do that when soon, search will be so powerful and instant, that, well…
Yes, logging and writing and thinking and linking, you’re building and assembling and creating. But don’t we need to ~get~ to bits fast, to be able to react to that fleeting idea in the head that there’s an epiphany, and I gotta make the connection now, before I forget? How can we build vast neural link networks if we forgot where stuff is, and can’t get to it quickly? These light flashes are so brief. Wouldn’t reliably fast search and agile scalable performance make Obsidian even more unbeatable than it already is?
Thank you @Dor, @ryanjamurphy, and @luckman212 for your thoughts thus far.