I just realized I took too many notes, now I'm getting nervous

Questions & Help
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Within one year I created more than 3500 pages and 1660 files in the assets folder with the acknowledgment of the limitation of performance. Now I‘m having anxiety of unable to take notes.

Can I have some advice on dealing with this problem?

Logseq performance very bad as graph grows
logseq is unusably slow in a garden with ~3500 nodes (Markdown), in particular graph view

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I had performance issues as well. I stopped using Logseq over a year ago. Logseq was a very promising tool but the basic promise to provide me a performant long term second brain, failed.

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Curious if your graphs are all text or are you importing PDFs or other document types into the LogSeq file system?

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  • Try re-indexing your graph, in case there is a temporary improvement.
  • Try moving to a new graph:
    • Create a new empty graph.
    • Copy there only the markdown files.
    • Open the graph a couple of times.
    • See if there is any difference.
    • Start gradually copying the assets, rechecking the performance difference as you go.
  • Same as the previous point, but this time don’t copy any markdown files that are suspiciously big or otherwise problematic.
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I can’t find any better note taking app better that logseq yet. but will consider separate notes into different graph due to different project make things more organized.

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I’m worried about performance, lack of updates and so on too, but as @Zagh_Yang say, testing several different tools, yes, some has this, others has that, but the flow I feel comfortable and I like is Logseq, but so worried to spend time on notes and customization, to maybe later move to another tool. I was testing Obsidian (seriously, I think is the best swiss knife of all out there right now) and Anytype (really loved it), but it lacks some basic functions and development seems so so slow (like logseq). What tool are you using?

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Thanks, I just upgraded logseq, and re-indexing, getting better now.

Is there any suggestion for checking the performance, such as checking task activity?

My largest page size is only 46KB. How large do you think the file size will need to be to affect the performance?

Now I have decided not to create too many tags. Instead, I should write most of my notes on journal pages. Once I have collected enough notes, I can start a new page.

For certain projects, such as reading books, I’d better start creating a new graph. I like to use the namespace to create a lot of pages for a difficult book.

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Mainly PDFs and images

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I don’t have any particular numbers to share. Size by itself is rarely the issue. You should experiment with any suspicious files, until you find something that consistently affects performance.

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I had a similar issue on my MacBook (Intel, 5 years old). All the problems disappeared after I restored my computer to factory defaults (read: in some sense formatted the drive). I know its a brute force, but worked for me :slight_smile: Now, with app. 2000 notes, and many images, works smoothly…

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