Everything changes when you ditch the network and store the database locally (markdown files and json metadata).
I used Notion for years before Obsidian and the speed alone is a reason to never go back.
On a related note, I also consider Linear to be quite fast and responsive especially when you learn the keyboard shortcuts. And to achieve that responsiveness, they load the whole database (or deltas) at startup.
I used Notion for years before Obsidian and the speed alone is a reason to never go back.
On a related note, I also consider Linear to be quite fast and responsive especially when you learn the keyboard shortcuts. And to achieve that responsiveness, they load the whole database (or deltas) at startup.