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Comment by midasz | Hacker News Reader

I really like Obsidian but the long startup time (on mobile) has stopped me from using it as a daily driver.

I don't know if it helps but disabling sync plugins and then turning off all the ones I didn't need massively sped up my load times. (~10x increase)

Perhaps, perhaps, this is something for you to look at. I use Obsidian on the Desktop but I don't do much work/editing on the Mobile, so I just use iA Editor (you an choose any editor of your choice). As the files are that -- files, I just browse and open the file I want to edit. I get to the files with Obsidian on the Desktop and iA Editor on the mobile to edit/read it.

I tried out iA writer on android because Obsidian's loading times are bad but was disappointed to see you can't set a folder in iA writer android.

Editing files is even slower since you have to pick a file from the android file search.

It's a well designed app otherwise.

Are you on Android? This is me launching from a cold open on iOS and it was near instant.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/90sbrx0esggnsmbsva2hg/Video-J...

Did it progressively get worse over time? I only have a couple hundred notes.

iCloud Sync does hurt the initial startup sporadically.

This is a priority for the Obsidian team over the next few months. This should get a lot better soon.

Can you elaborate? There is no mention of that in the roadmap ( https://obsidian.md/roadmap/ ).

There is now :)

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