The artifical character limit in google notes is so damn annoying

They put actual effort into an anti feature with a "convert into google doc" button. Like they clearly understand one might want to type more than 50k characters, they just dont allow you to do that in notes for no reason besides fuck you

Hey google if i wanted to use google docs, i would have used google docs. Now I just have to split my notes into two because clearly im doing it wrong and google knows better >.>

what's artificial about it? it's probably there for a reason I mean. standard notes also has a character limit, I think apple notes as well

honestly it's pretty sweet that they prompt you to use google docs when you hit the limit actually, they could've just told you to go fuck yourself

I wonder if people try and use this stuff as impromptu databases or something.

What are you writing that you worked out this is a limit?!

@spoiledgoods they just could've let him type, that would be nice.

Anyway, it's a free (perfect note taking) product. Only used phone version tho. Free products are free to abuse you

@retoor I use the documents to act like a link bank. I have files for different interests and urls in them with small explanations. So I don't have to worry about browsers supporting storing links. So if I see a cool link at work I put in doc on google. Then later at home I can get the links I found.

Google has a note app? What next, Google Todo?

@spoiledgoods What limitation? Can't be storage size if converting the note into a doc solves the issue

@atheist Game dev notes lol

@electrineer I mean... Google Calender exists

@12bitfloat they probably did it just to piss you off personally

It could absolutely be storage limitation. Just because converting it to a doc is a solution doesn’t mean it’s not storage related.
More than likely, note content and doc content are stored in 2 completely separate DBs, probably built by different teams that know nothing about each other apart from the API to convert a note to a doc.
Assuming they are stored in different places, different DBs have different storage limits. Chances are if notes are intended to be written and referenced quickly, they may have used some kind of key-value store for fast retrieval, but the storage limit will be smaller than of you were storing it as a file in S3 or something like that.

Or it could of course be something else entirely. Could be some product manager snorted some coke and decided people should never have notes longer than 50k chars because reasons. Or “but people need to have a reason to use Docs over Notes otherwise why have both”.

@LLAMS Thats a good point. Still kinda annoying as an end user though