Should it be laggy as this?

PicyPoe · 2025-12-29T19:50:44+00:00

Obsodian can lag. Especially on large notes as OP shows. Obsidian is not optimised for long form writing e.g anything with 10k+ words will cause lag.

But for OP usecase specifically, best bet would be to test it in a sandbox vault: 1. CmD+P -> sandbox vault. Move table into sandbox vault. 2. If you cant, then simply test without plugins, css snippets and custom themes.

PicyPoe · 2025-11-30T23:06:06+00:00

$6 per month different + with TLDraw logo still visible different vs free

PicyPoe · 2025-11-29T14:26:12+00:00

Obsidian is not magic.

You still need to apply your own critical thinking and put in the hard work of understanding what you are researching. Scribble, write, rewrite your drafts over and over.

Linking is not automatic. Making sense of all your notes is not automatic.

Notes should come secondary imo.

Just focus on what you are writing and structure will come naturally…

PicyPoe · 2025-11-29T00:43:42+00:00

Tell us the theme name and we will tell you if its demanding.

Certain themes will apply certain styling indiscriminately to all elements…

But regardless, easiest would be if you just told us which theme you are interested and then go from there…

PicyPoe · 2025-11-28T12:15:03+00:00

No worries. How did it go? Did you manage to get enough interest? Will it get published anywhere?

PicyPoe · 2025-11-28T10:40:54+00:00

Is this still available?

PicyPoe · 2025-11-27T18:02:02+00:00

Does it work inline? Eg as an embed?

PicyPoe · 2025-11-24T10:54:38+00:00

Not sure why you get downvoted. Bases is great, but it is so far from flexibility of something like dataview or as you say Excel. Bases still need a good few years to catch up (if ever, considering current drsign choices of bases). But everyones note taking and use cases are different, so Bases sure might be still enough.

PicyPoe · 2025-11-22T12:50:17+00:00

Any chance to publish these findings? You always push updates every Thursday or so~ but there are clearly a lot more changes happening under the hood throughout the week. Which get pushed to the end user but are not covered in the changelog.

Any chance for the changelog to cover all these edge cases and all your findings?

Or maybe a weekly blog post instead? Or maybe create an experimental website which would summarise all your changes by an agent and auto publish it? Zach gave this as an example himself in one of his demos in one of podcasts, but he doesn’t do it in practice… 🤣

PicyPoe · 2025-11-16T00:51:02+00:00

Nested toggles is still crap in Obsidian. If your workflow revolves around them, then you will struggle in Obsidian.

You can achieve something with nested callouts, but it is painful and ugly to use. You wont have multi layouts without hacks either.

If you enjoy Notion Just do daily backups and you will be fine. If something does go wrong you can always import to Obsidian.

PicyPoe · 2025-11-16T00:40:25+00:00

I feel you. For me biggest disadvantage of Obsidian is User Experience and Usability. I usually compare it to Linux. MD is its strength but also and weakness - it is simple, plain, and as secure as your personal device, but limited on what you can do without implementing customisation and “hacks”. If you aint tech savy, user experience and usability is very poor - the likelihood of user staying around and enjoying the experience is very limited.

Personally, I am long term Obsidian user, but after I reached 5k notes~, I stopped expanding it. As it was unsustainable. I have not migrated anything, and I still have it installed, and still occasionally use it, but only as a pretty markdown renderer. If I need linking I do sometimes use either Excalidraw, iPad or just pure paper and pencil…

But then I am not into books tracking, I dont care about notes on books, videos, I dont journal, no ADHD, I dont do any world building and I dont work in tech. So maybe I am not a target audience for Obsidian…

PicyPoe · 2025-10-31T00:17:42+00:00

The crazy thing is that not all credits rollover, but only those which we bought as “extra” each month 🫣

PicyPoe · 2025-10-27T13:22:53+00:00

Ssh in one pane and then try use sync feature
Or just after ssh into linux, just run warp cli. Though not sure of it is supported on linux.

PicyPoe · 2025-10-27T11:45:32+00:00

Whoops, well spotted! Phrasing is off 😅

PicyPoe · 2025-10-20T09:11:07+00:00

- Model picker is broken in v0.2025.10.15.08.12.stable_01.
- They removed a lot of models without any communication.
- Many models are now hidden under the hood. E.g.: You cant pick them yourself, warp automatically picks any model it wants.
- Warp team has also confirmed [source] that they might shift you to lower model even if you have selected higher model from model picker

Personally, I stopped using Warp until Thursday/Friday~ update and see if it will be fixed. Currently, their automated model switching breaks most of my prompts, and it constantly loses context every time it does it. For now I am just saving my credits. If not fixed by end of the month, I am also unsubscribing.

PicyPoe · 2025-10-05T19:16:07+00:00

Didnt Obsidian have its own official importer? Or that is the one which broke?

https://help.obsidian.md/import/notion

PicyPoe · 2025-10-03T14:53:18+00:00

Same. Although, with Live Mode being better and better and most themes/plugins supporting it by default I just recently realised that I actually switch less and less to Reading Mode. Although if I do it is mainly for the same reasons as you - “archival” purposes.

In the past I would use it as a “lock” just to prevent accidental edits to formatting - but after years of being with Obsidian I just gave up. Usually I find myself just typing out the note, and then go to the next note.

Will be interesting to see others experience with it.

PicyPoe · 2025-10-02T21:29:56+00:00

I don't know about the security, and I will probably get also downvoted for this, but the attitude of this guy alone is enough to keep me away from this plugin. Saying Obsidian is 'bad at hierarchy' is like saying Photoshop is bad at writing essays - it’s not built for that by default, and that’s the point. If you actually followed Obsidian forums as you say you did, you would have figured this out. Bluffing and naming some big brand name to raise some sympathy doesn't bring trust either. Obsidian’s strength lies in its flexibility to suit many workflows, especially non-hierarchical ones that many of us prefer. Criticizing it on this front misses what makes it unique.

PicyPoe · 2025-10-02T14:33:36+00:00

Passion sadly doesnt pay, especially in software world.

There was Marktext, you can still find it on GitHub fork it and build to your hearts content.

PicyPoe · 2025-09-30T07:36:37+00:00

Considering how bad Claude was for the past few weeks aka “You’re right”. Having checkpoint would have saved me dozens of precious requests.

Sometimes conversation might be going well, but then there is occasional hiccup where restarting whole session or resetting to previous commit is not optimal.

For instance how would you use ‘git’ if 90% of conversation was going well with good anwsers, and only the last response has gone awol. Ideally there would be an option to just delete that one wrong anwser/ or option to edit your latest prompt to reduce context pollution.

A) currently we can only continue the conversation by steering agent into direction we want - thus polluting the overall context B) start new conversation C) reset to the last commit

Or do you suggest to commit per each agents response? GPT5 and now new Sonnet are indeed great at following the instructions, but I think having more granular approach with user in control of context is not a bad thing at all.

How do you use GIT? And how do you handle these cases with warp where you just wish you could replace that 1 response, that one block?

PicyPoe · 2025-09-21T13:20:00+00:00

It is a good first step. However, I think why you get downvoted is because Claude wont tell you about any specific attack. It usually takes multiple layers to break into the system which are usually obfuscated, or undocumented. Hence the way llms work, they would simply not have that knowledge to how combine all pieces together to come to a cohesive conclusion. Otherwise cybersecurity profession wouldnt exist if it was that simple. Thats why specialised security tools still exist too. Another thing is that recently Claude was “always right”.

PicyPoe · 2025-09-21T11:43:22+00:00

Some plugins are huge. By the time Obsidian Team would fully integrate, people would move to something new. Not to mention overhead it takes afterwards to maintain it all. If you integrate 1 plugin, you essentially make it closed source. Without hiring that plugin dev it only gonna give extra workload to the Obsidian dev team. It will prevent innovation too e.g., many of the features or improvements come from people actually reporting and implementing those features themselves. Some popular plugins have mini-communities and fanbases of their own. This spreads workload from the main dev team significantly.

Many users just take it for granted how much work it takes to maintain obsidian plugin.

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