I love Obsidian. As I have 15-20k notes, Sync with iCloud is a pain. So I started using Obsidian sync. I pay gladly. Also for supporting the team. Yet even with that solution Obsidian takes up to 7 seconds to open on my iPhone. That’s way to slow. So when I try to lookup something or jot down something the startup time reduces my creative juices.
So I subscribed to Drafts to quickly create notes in Obsidian. As I switched to Obsidian sync, the file created by Drafts app in iCloud won’t be visible in Obsidian immediately as it needs to sync to the server and back.
After all these hiccups I started using Notion again. Yes, I have all my notes from past 20+ years in Obsidian, but I do my project work and quick journaling in Notion now. It immediately opens. I can also use databases. And I am in the process of creating a Python script that auto exports my Notion notes to my Obsidian vault.
Notion is really excellent for managing projects, and quickly looking up infos on the go. Perfect companion.
Edit: Corrected startup time of Obsidian with native sync.
I set up a solution with iOS and a-shell and otherwise maintain my notes in Git with automation. This seems to get around the limitations that are encountered with large amounts of files. Since it’s just Git commands under the hood all the optimizations of syncing large amounts of files are included.
There are various guides on how to do this online. As a bonus: this method is completely free and uses no proprietary technologies
Notion has an API. I create database entries with a Python script, export notes with another. I had a hard time exporting a couple of hundred Apple Notes entries some time ago.
So I subscribed to Drafts to quickly create notes in Obsidian. As I switched to Obsidian sync, the file created by Drafts app in iCloud won’t be visible in Obsidian immediately as it needs to sync to the server and back.
After all these hiccups I started using Notion again. Yes, I have all my notes from past 20+ years in Obsidian, but I do my project work and quick journaling in Notion now. It immediately opens. I can also use databases. And I am in the process of creating a Python script that auto exports my Notion notes to my Obsidian vault.
Notion is really excellent for managing projects, and quickly looking up infos on the go. Perfect companion.
Edit: Corrected startup time of Obsidian with native sync.