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Is obsidian a fucking joke?

Seriously, is it a joke? Why would you ever care so much about indexing literally everything, if the entire thing crashes and/or takes >5min to LITERALLY just open the fucking directory and/or (so help you) if that directory is full of projects/repos or whatever the fuck and the total size of said directory is like >5GB.

WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU INDEX EVERYTHING? -- "Ohh obsidian's not supposed to be used a fully fledged IDE, ohh obsidian should just handle MD files and normal sized projects, ohh the plugins and ease-of-use" -- Fuck.

There's no fucking real reason to index everything, BY DEFAULT. You open a directory with Obsidian? Doesn't matter, it's 1 byte, it's 100GB, you get indexed. Deal with it. It will use LITERALLY every resource your computer has. I'm surprised it doesn't go galaxy brain and ping if any other computers/devices are on the network and then attempt to connect and use their hardware (obsidian can be like a node!).

How shit can you be at understanding basic data structures and algorithms, where you just revert to based google-chrome brain and let the FUCKING TEXT EDITOR -- OBSIDIAN IS A FUCKING TEXT EDITOR HOLY SHIT -- hog all conceivable memory.

I swear to <some-deity> if anyone fucking says "Ohhhhhhhh actually, it's not a text editor, it has plugins and features and shit, it does all dis cool stff", OR, "Ohhhhh actually, obsidian indexes things for a very specific/rationale/apt/pragmatic/academic reason" OR "ohhhh, I have 100 iphones, 1000 ipads and a trillion desktop computers that each have 256GB of memory, why you hating on obsidian?" then go kick rocks. The fucking lot of you. Are you fucking kidding me.

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  • 4
    Quality rant! Wholeheartedly agreeing.
  • 4
    Did you just.... no, no let me re-read that, nope I wasn't mistaken, that's a true blue rant if I've ever seen one lately 🥹
  • 2
    Well from what i know, Obsidian is very difficult to break and you may need to resort to diamonds to speed the process up
  • 0
    Rich text is going to win the format wars.
  • 0
    Tagspace is better but it crashes too sigh
  • 0
    Actually having seen airtable, notion, obsidian, and a dozen others, I seriously think notion is going to take off in a big way.

    It's a pretty seamless merger of what databases, and tag based wikis do. In rich text. With just enough "commandline" support to snatch up obsidian users.
  • 1
    Obsidian might be extraordinary brittle and you definitely can severely cut yourself when not being careful working with it. But you can make it into pretty beautiful things which can very well last for centuries if used properly.
  • 1
    High quality rant 👏 what do u mean by indexing?
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