mikemurphy MindLedger I created one,, but it’s empty now as all of my Notes have tags. I make a lot of tutorials and have one YouTube Smart Folder that holds all of my YouTube video descriptions that now has over 1500 notes. I’m going to convert that back to a regular folder and see if that helps speed things up.
MindLedger mikemurphy Interesting. Just a thought- try deleting the Untagged smart folder. Even though it's empty I'm sure it's still "running" checking all your Notes for missing tags. My keyboard lag disappeared when I deleted this smart folder.
mikemurphy MindLedger Thanks for the tip and that makes sense. Just deleted it and will let you know. I have been using it as a catch-all Inbox, but if it fixes the lag, I can live without out. 👍
tvillemw From the top level menu you can click All Tags twice (doing so puts a strike through line through the tag) to find tables notes.
James-Ashby I have ~ 3500 notes after transferring a bunch from Evernotes. The only time I have experienced lag is when I have moved a large number of notes from subfolders to the regular notes folder after converting several folders to smart folders. It took a while for Notes to synch the changes but then all was well. I keep an untagged smart folders but limit it to notes created within the past 2 or 3 months and this has not been a problem.
MahmoudFahiem When I deleted the untagged smart folder every thing was great but after a month or more, the lag is returned again I don’t now why? Any help? I really thing to detach apple notes for that
tr4jan MahmoudFahiem Obviously there is more than one thread about the same topic. I already commented on this matter here about 2 weeks ago as follows (LINK). I don't think there's anything to add to that. Tenor: Apple has bugs in Apple Notes that have not yet been fixed. Whatever you do will not fix the bugs.
MahmoudFahiem tr4jan I solved the issue by deleting all smart folders, and the app is now crazy fast! I also replaced each smart folder with a shortcut, and I’m really satisfied now.
tr4jan MahmoudFahiem I'm happy for you. However, such a workaround doesn't solve anything - and that was my point.
MahmoudFahiem Hello tr4jan, you said that we should use different apps for different purposes and not collect all related materials in the note-taking app. How do you manage materials effectively and manage linking between them?
tr4jan MahmoudFahiem Well, I'm rather striving to make people aware of the disadvantages of conglomerating ‘everything’ into a single app that is not designed for many of the application areas I've seen. 😉 I don't quite understand your question. Do you have a concrete example?
MikekiM Been implementing F*N over the past few weeks. I'd been plagued with excruciating lag in AN after importing about 3000 notes from Evernote. Like others, I had an "Untagged" smartfolder to find notes that didn't have tags. There were fewer than a dozen notes contained there-in. The lag was so bad just to add a tag to those notes, that I avoided doing it. Until today. Tagged that last few notes, deleted the smartfolder and… boom. Lag seems to be gone.
tr4jan Glad to hear. There are plenty of potential workarounds en route - some worked for some, others not at all. If feel at present the "Lag-bugs" to be kinda gone -at least on my Macs. However, notes in which I use headings are still often displayed incorrectly (blank lines and paragraphs where there are none). In any case, it has nothing to do with the amount of notes (3k is not really that much either).
MindLedger Smart folders searching for all Untagged notes can cause lag issues (as I can personally testify), however GretchenCawthon shared a great tip: instead of using a Smart Folder, in your tag list tap on “All Tags”, tap again to strike through, and then you have all your untagged notes.
tr4jan MindLedger At this point, of course, everyone could present their workaround again, but then it would be written somewhere twice and three times. Smartfolders were never an issue for me, because I don't use a single smart folder in one of the systems with thousands of notes and the lagging was still enormous. Anyway.