Comment by zer0zzz
2 months ago
The most basic app, a notepad, I often prefer native. When I go between google keep or notion to apple notes I can tell the difference. If the text is long enough, the web apps just can not load the content.
Just to confirm:
I dumped all of my notes from my insanely large apple notes (about 16000 lines of text) and pasted them into Google Keep, Notion, Google Docs. With the exception of Google Docs the rest of them flat out froze and I had to kill my browser. Stop trying to tell us that the browser is the answer to everything when most web apps cant do the job of Notepad.exe or vi
> With the exception of Google Docs
So, one out of three webapps that you tested could handle this much text. It suggests that the problem for the other two is their implementation, rather than any limitation of the browser.
Of the two that failed, did you also try the app versions to see if they failed too? I really doubt the Notion app could handle 16000 lines of text.
Sorry, I couldn't recreate this. I just built a tiny texteditor app: https://65cd02a1-8f00-47cb-b1d1-231493de5fc2.paged.net/
Tried putting 20k lines into it. Loaded instantly, allowed me to scroll and edit flawlessly.
But I get your point. I'm on a pretty decent 2022 iPhone, and I'm sure at some stage I would run into a performance hit. But not at 20k lines.
Note taking apps generally do formatting, markdown like stuff or at least linking to urls in the text etc.
You cant slap a plain text field and assume that emulates the actual experience in any way.
Now try VSCode in chrome and compare it with apple notes. I use both and VSCode wins hands down in long lines and files.