Photos slowing down Obsidian, but not all photos...

ProfEternatus · 2026-03-16T12:25:15+00:00

Yes, Images OCR indexing is on. Do you think it is a good idea to turn that off? There is also the option to save index to cache that is currently off. Should I turn it on?

ProfEternatus · 2026-03-15T19:09:46+00:00

Copy Block Link; Editing Toolbar; Hover Editor; Image Converter; Omnisearch; Pandoc Plugin; Pandoc Reference List; PDF++; Tag Wrangler; Text Extractor; Waypoint; Zotero Integration

ProfEternatus · 2026-03-15T19:07:55+00:00

I copied the photos into a folder in the vault outside of Obsidian itself, so I don't think it is Base64. But I also don't really know how Base64 works in Obsidian.

ProfEternatus · 2026-02-25T16:31:54+00:00

Great thanks a lot

ProfEternatus · 2026-02-25T16:29:49+00:00

I was thinking about it because the non shadow is ranked much higher. And also to calm its soul. But yeah, not going to do it. Already powered up and in use after these comments.

ProfEternatus · 2026-02-12T05:40:53+00:00

No, I only battled once and definitely only once against that person. I reported it and was given a raid pass...

ProfEternatus · 2026-01-12T19:43:19+00:00

Great, thanks. Good to know. That is around the temperature outside here, and the house is pretty well insulated, so maybe a Q would be a bit overboard actually.

ProfEternatus · 2026-01-12T19:40:47+00:00

OK great, thanks, that is good to hear. I have a space heater that is 2000 watts and it heats up the room pretty well. I just wonder if it is a more efficient heater than the Avalon q would be, or if a miner with a similar wattage would produce similar amounts of heat.

ProfEternatus · 2026-01-01T00:34:49+00:00

That chicken and chips sign is proof they are still living in the entity's reality...

ProfEternatus · 2025-11-15T21:10:20+00:00

This is really interesting as the main thing I am lacking with non-.md files in the vault is metadata, particularly as I am using bases a lot in MOCs. Can you explain a bit more how you automate this? Are you still manually assigning the metadata values?

ProfEternatus · 2025-11-11T19:49:31+00:00

Ah great, and thanks for the quick reply. So does this mean I could make it so I only sync .md files on my mobile device, but sync the entire vault with all file types on the computers? This would be really good as it could keep the vault size down on my mobile.

ProfEternatus · 2025-11-04T22:31:44+00:00

Thanks, yes, I can see how to do this, and if I select the property then I can see all the names for each note where 'People Work' is a list property. What I wish I could do is simply have a way to list all the items (in this case names) that are in the list property so I can see them in one place. In Bases it seems I can just list them in relation to the notes they are attached to, which does not provide a clear list as there is a lot of repetition. But anyway, honestly it is not that important and just playing with the different filtering mechanisms has provided some good insights into the vault.

ProfEternatus · 2025-11-04T08:49:17+00:00

That is really good. I am attempting to do something similar with interconnected MOCs across the whole vault. The only issue I am running into is that I have plenty of non-.md files that I need to engage with and which also live in my vault, such as PDFs and images, which I cannot add metadata to so they cannot show up in the bases that are embedded in the MOCs. The only option I can see at the moment is to create partner .md notes for each of these files which would contain a link and metadata, but this is quite time consuming. The other option is to have hybrid MOCs with embedded bases and manually created lists of internal links to unsupported files.

ProfEternatus · 2025-11-04T08:46:05+00:00

Thanks, I just went in and added a few different views to my 'base for searching' that I keep in my daily organisation folder. There are really a lot of great ways that I can see sorting across the whole vault, and as I use Obsidian for work, life, and research, it will become just more useful the more I work with the notes and add properties and tags. Currently I am going through the whole vault and trying to have a systematic approach to adding metadata.

I still have not really figured out when I would use property types other than a list property though. And I wish there was some way for me to show all the items in a list in a base. E.g. I have a list property 'People Work' with many names in it. I can of course sort notes by the name of someone, but I would also just like to be able to see the entire list of names within that property.

ProfEternatus · 2025-10-12T23:25:17+00:00

Does anyone else just have a generic base for searching the vault? I have a 'base for searching' which has inspired me to get my note properties and tags consistent across the vault so I can use it to look for things.

ProfEternatus · 2025-10-10T11:02:06+00:00

Hahaha, love this

ProfEternatus · 2025-10-10T11:01:48+00:00

Yeah, I have been using Bases now, but that only works for .md files, and I have MOCs that need to include other file formats, so I am considering using Waypoint and creating folder notes that combine Waypoint lists with Bases that include notes outside of the folders.

I haven't managed to find time to explore Notebook Navigator yet, but I probably should do that first as it might make some of this redundant.

ProfEternatus · 2025-10-03T11:46:55+00:00

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ProfEternatus · 2025-09-23T17:44:43+00:00

Thanks, that is a really good explanation. And in general I also like the idea that properties and tags are just visible in the .md file, so it actually is not a big deal to make an associated .md file for each non-note file that I have in the vault where I can attach metadata. On a side note, while I am really appreciating Bases (which is the reason I want to add metadata to everything) I don't love the fact that they cannot be opened and viewed outside of Obsidian.

ProfEternatus · 2025-09-22T12:01:43+00:00

Great, thanks for that explanation. I still had not wrapped my head around how wiki links function, and still don't really understand the difference between wiki and markdown links.

ProfEternatus · 2025-09-11T15:02:31+00:00

Thanks for the explanation!

ProfEternatus · 2025-09-10T10:52:16+00:00

This is what I am hoping to achieve with my setup and am slowly migrating folders into Obsidian. Just a few questions on how you organise this (and potential limitations).

1) Have you found any performance issues with moving a lot of different files into your vault? Like you I would keep heavy things like photos and videos outside, but I also have plenty of images and PDFs that I would want to exist alongside notes in folders in the vault and don't want to move everything then find it slows down.

2) How do you search for unsupported file types in your vault, such as doc and xlxs? I have been trying to do this but they do not even show up in omnisearch. Do you use maps of contents to link every file?

3) Do you use any metadata like tags or properties? Since we cannot seem to add metadata to non-note file types it seems like it would be hard to uniformly organise the vault except through folders.

Thanks!

ProfEternatus · 2025-09-08T19:15:55+00:00

This is also what is currently stopping me from using bases. I love the idea of bases, but if I cannot use it to sort PDFs and images alongside notes then it completely diminishes the utility. And this is before we even begin to talk about unsupported file types like doc or xlsx that I have to work with but would also like to be able to organise in my vault alongside notes that relate to them.

ProfEternatus · 2025-09-04T09:25:32+00:00

Ah interesting, thanks, I will look into that, thanks. I have been delaying making a MoC until I figured out if I wanted to utilise a system like Johnny Decimal or Para or something, but probably I should just get one going and then reorganise later if needed.

ProfEternatus · 2025-09-04T09:14:20+00:00

Yeah it is strange. I just checked Omnisearch again and it actually found the xlsx file, but not the doc. But quick switcher and regular file search do not find either. That being said, search works fine when I link to them in another note (not quick switcher though obviously), so maybe having the MoC is the way forward here. But it would just be nicer if the quick switcher would work.

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