Yes!

Yeah I think the problem with the sentence is that it's already a common point of confusion. People generally don't know the difference between markdown and plain text, so putting them in the sentence together makes it sound like they are alternatives to each other.

"Similar to Markdown, plaintext files are future-proof."

This sentence is a bit confusing since Markdown is a syntax you use in a plain text file.

Also "plaintext" usually refers to nonencrypted text whereas "plain text" refers to the media type.

indeed
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iPhone 17 Pro

More stats:
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Agreed, especially for continuous interactions like dragging, as opposed to discrete ones like clicking/tapping

"Human processor model" is a cognitive modeling method developed by Stuart K. Card, Thomas P. Moran, & Allen Newell (1983) used to calculate how long it takes to perform a certain task.
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"Response time in man-computer conversational transactions" by Robert Miller (1968)

It's worth studying the classics of interaction design.

"Response Times: The 3 Important Limits" by Jakob Nielsen (1993)
www.nngroup.com/articles/res...

you can see it by opening developer tools and reading the app.js

Your suggestion for 2026 is to abandon five years of work and make the efforts of thousands of community plugin developers obsolete. I don't think that's a good idea.

There's still more time we can shave off. Believe me, as someone with a large personal vault, I notice every bit of slowness everywhere it happens, and I won't rest until we shaved it all away.

Startup time is not the only thing that got faster, in Obsidian 1.9 we also made search nearly instantaneous.
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In 1.11 we're shaving off a few seconds with widgets so you can open/create directly from the lock screen. You also have the ability to choose how the app opens by default (e.g. new note, existing note). You can even bind Obsidian to your action button.
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As of Obsidian 1.10 the app becomes usable after initialization and core plugins, the rest loads in the background.

If you're on iCloud make sure you set Obsidian's folder to "Keep downloaded"

Obsidian has always been performance-focused, but one problem area was startup time on mobile. That has radically improved over the last few updates, and it's now down under 500ms for almost all vaults, even my large personal vault with over 17,000 notes.

We employed many different solutions to speed up Obsidian across various syncing methods, operating systems, plugins, vault sizes, etc.

Getting into Obsidian should be instantaneous regardless of vault size. It's absolutely necessary so that ideas can flow without friction.