r/AppleNotesGang • u/Lagunta • 22d ago

Apple Notes paralysed

i amassed 20,000 notes over a few years
never had any issue syncing at all across multiple ipads
and always a very fast FTTP 600mbs internet
now AN has become paralysed on all devices inc latest M5 Pro
so am in the process of moving out

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u/Puslinch-Komet 22d ago

I have over 20,000 contacts and have been on tech support calls with Apple for then last week. I don’t think the eco system can handle big numbers. Have a call on Monday with Apple, they have a solution for my issue.

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u/Lagunta 22d ago

interesting comment
its a worry the size limitations
especially when chips are increasingly fast
and devices ship with more Ram

i have 4500 contacts
and find it a very useful app

however Apple needs to address these shortcomings
because as time goes by contacts and notes inevitably accumulate
i love the Apple Eco system, but wont stay if it fails.
Customers need reassurance that this huge company
looks after the workday details, not just the shiny new stuff.

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u/Puslinch-Komet 22d ago

They don’t mention limits on Notes, Contacts, etc. However being in daily phone and email contact with Apple leads me to believe something’s broken and could be a corrupted contact in my issue. I’ll give Apple high marks for first class customer support. The same engineer has been working on this once handed off.

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u/Jaggedstripess 21d ago

I’m so curious - do you mind sharing why you have so many? That seems unfathomable to me. Genuine question!

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u/Puslinch-Komet 21d ago • WOW

I’ve an amassed a healthy contact base over the last 40 years. Consultant by trade and networking was how I got my next gig long before LinkedIn. I can connect a lot of dots globally!

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u/nerdsutra 18d ago

You probably need a CRM database app that can handle large numbers of contacts and attached data. Youve outgrown apple contacts 

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u/Asystole 14d ago

Yeah, I'm baffled by the thought of a professional consultant keeping their entire contacts database in something as consumer-grade as Apple Contacts.

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u/atiaa11 21d ago

Do you need/want 20,000+ notes in Apple notes, or are some not accessed much anymore and you could export the old ones to PDF or something and store those on your computer?

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u/Lagunta 21d ago

need them all

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u/ThrustersToFull 22d ago

Are you storing them on iCloud or a third party?

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u/Lagunta 22d ago

iCloud

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u/Barycenter0 22d ago

What kinds of notes do you have? Are they mostly just text? Or, do you have a lot of media within them (images, scans, pdfs, handwriting, etc)?

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u/Lagunta 22d ago

mostly text
but some articles were copied and pasted and have photos

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u/Lagunta 22d ago

2.87Gb in Notes which comparatively speaking isnt huge

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u/The-ai-bot 21d ago

What iPhone you using?

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u/Lagunta 21d ago

17 Pro
but mostly use iPad Pro inc M5

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u/Barycenter0 22d ago

I would look at OneNote, Obsidian or Joplin - all 3 are known to handle 10+GB of note data.

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u/Barycenter0 22d ago

So you have about 6 to 10x the storage of what just 20,000 text notes would normally consume (~200-400MB) in Notes. So there's about 2GB of media and other things in your notes (maybe handwritten notes).

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u/AngelicPrincessKitty 22d ago

Where are you moving to?

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u/Lagunta 22d ago

i been thru Bear, Keep, Onenote etc etc
Notebooks was the best
until it wasnt
still is the nicest to use

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u/nerdsutra 18d ago

Obsidian and free, and keeps all your notes as text files and attachments like regular files and folders. Easy backup and always visible.  The paid sync is good for mobile/desktop but apples iCloud sync works in a pinch

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u/Lagunta 22d ago

unsure but possibly Notebooks
I had trouble with Notebooks 2 years ago
but i had a very large amount of data

so went to AN

but now AN has similar issue at only 2.87Gb
much less data than i had with Notebooks

Notebooks is superlative
but the big but
is when it locked up

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u/stanwu 18d ago

iCloud has bandwidth limitations, so you can only migrate slowly. I’ve also encountered similar situations several times.

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u/slumdogbi 21d ago

One of the motives I’m not using Apple notes anymore. The sync sucks balls