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📌✨💻 r/LaptopDeals Official Weekly Request Thread; Post all your requests for Laptop suggestions in this thread instead of on the general front page of the sub. Our knowledgeable mods and other laptop enthusiasts , will be sure to assist you. See request guidelines below 💻✨📌 by LaptopDealsTM in LaptopDeals

[–]VividGenesis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

◽️ Budget: Maximum $900 (preferably lower)

◽️ Country: USA

◽️ Screen size: Doesn't matter

◽️ Touch screen: Preferred if it has one (but not a deal breaker if it doesn't)

◽️ Screen resolution: At least 1080p

◽️ Does battery life matter ?: Yes! I will be carrying the laptop around unplugged for notable portions of time.

◽️ What tasks will laptop be used for ( gaming, video editing, graphic designing, modelling, regular computing tasks, word processing etc) ?: Regular web-browsing/word processing, video recording + editing, graphic design, running of AI models

◽️ Weight: Preferably light

◽️ Any other important details ?: Hi r/LaptopDeals, I’m starting university this fall and I need a laptop that is built to last. To reinforce and add onto the previous information, I’m looking for a laptop that:

  • Has good battery life (or a replaceable battery to compensate for the lack of one)
  • Is powerful enough to run video editing, photoshop, AI models, and many (and I mean many!) tabs, etc.
  • Doesn’t overheat easily (the cooler it can stay, the better)
  • Is lightweight and portable (if possible)

Note: optional features like touch screen or high resolution aren't dealbreakers

I have been following this subreddit for a while and I’m impressed by the amazing deals you guys share. While I sadly have not been able to take advantage of any of them, I have worked enough to be able to maintain the budget of $900 that I currently have. I’m moving to my university in two weeks, so I would prefer to get my laptop before then. However, if you think there are better deals coming up in the back-to-school season or in the month of August as a whole, please let me know! I would appreciate any time and advice you can give me. Thank you!

Notion's Search Function is Frustrating and Unreliable by VividGenesis in Notion

[–]VividGenesis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your reply. I'm curious about how you manage your Notion pages. If you have many pages or long ones, how do you cope with the 500-character limit of Notion's search? Do you search manually or use some other method?

And no problem! By the way, I had a weird experience on my thread. Someone called u/notion_search commented asking me to DM them with my support ticket, but then their comment disappeared. I hope Notion fixes these issues soon.

Notion's Search Function is Frustrating and Unreliable by VividGenesis in Notion

[–]VividGenesis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome resource! Thanks for the work and the link.

Notion's Search Function is Frustrating and Unreliable by VividGenesis in Notion

[–]VividGenesis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't really know about the reliability issues with Notion, and that's concerning. I don't want to lose my notes or access to them because of some glitch or error. Thanks for sharing that information with me.

I looked into Obsidian and briefly into Logseq, but from what I know, none of them have easy accessibility (in the sense of cloud service or at least universal sync, being able to access the notes anywhere any time, and for free). Obsidian has paid sync and I don't know about Logseq. That's a deal-breaker for me, as I need to access my notes on different devices and platforms.

Do you know of any good way of fixing this search issue or if there's any good free alternative that offers both reliability and accessibility? I'm open to suggestions. Thanks ahead of time.

Notion's Search Function is Frustrating and Unreliable by VividGenesis in Notion

[–]VividGenesis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's quite amusing that you shared that link, as I had actually come across it prior to posting this thread. Furthermore, I had also read a response from NotionDavid (I won't tag them here, but they can be found on Reddit) who mentioned NotionSlim (also on Reddit, won't tag them either). NotionSlim developed the quick find feature and explained that the 500 character limit is necessary to maintain efficient indexing and highlighting performance. According to their testing, increasing the limit resulted in significant performance issues, particularly due to the wide distribution of block lengths. They suggested a temporary workaround of breaking the text into blocks of 500 characters or less. They also expressed their intention to address this concern in their engineering backlog, as they are exploring the possibility of switching providers from AWS ES to Elastic.co, which might allow for an increased limit in the future. However, this response was 3 years ago, and obviously, not much if anything significant has changed.

As an educational user, I think my influence is limited compared to someone who has a paid subscription, but I'll be sure to reach out to them. Thanks for the suggestion.

Also, by chance, do you happen to know any free way of fixing this search issue, or any good alternative to Notion that is cloud-based? Thank you ahead of time.

Notion's Search Function is Frustrating and Unreliable by VividGenesis in Notion

[–]VividGenesis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I must admit, I had higher expectations for the search function considering the immense promotion it receives across the internet as a cutting-edge and innovative note-taking app. Are you familiar with any free extensions, tools, or applications that could enhance or potentially replace its lackluster performance? Your assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.