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Signal boosting in case anyone from notion is reading: please address performance, it is practically the only thing I care about. I love the product but it is almost unusably slow with my tiny amount of data. Cache more stuff on my device, avoid blocking network calls where possible, etc, please!

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Yes, performance is absolutely awful. Not just individual (it’s a heavy react app), but it’s not really possible to use search when you have more than a couple hundred pages. I swear their test fixture is a site with no more than 5 pages and they all use Mac Pros so they don’t notice any performance issues.

I have a single markdown file that stores all my work notes for the year, and recently I imported it into Notion. My partner raves about how much she likes Notion so I thought I'd try it.

The files can take up to three seconds to load at times, and seemingly caches nothing on my phone so when I want to look at my notes on the tube, I can't load it.

Yes, I’ve been using Notion for years, but recently started migrating everything to Obsidian because it feels so much faster.

(Notion engineer here) I'd love to hear more! We're focusing a lot on performance and want to hear where it hurts the most. If you (or anyone else reading) are comfortable sharing, drop me a line at carlo AT makenotion DOT com

Agreed. I use a few filters which take seconds to update, sometimes disappearing and then redrawing on any change in the tables. And recently some of my filters and views have been changing, leading me to have to tweak and adjust some of my dashboard views, shaking my confidence.

The filters and relations are so powerful and I really love the flexibility: example, “show only tasks linked to projects with an active status.” But when they keep disappearing and redrawing, I just feel slowed down in the app lately.

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