Limitations

[Rebecca]

I still have not found a satisfying answer to this question. What exactly
are ON's limitations? Let's say I have thousands of pages, with many items
that are flagged. What happens when I run a search on these flagged items?
Will it be unbearably slow?

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP Outlook/OneNote]

I still have not found a satisfying answer to this question. What
exactly are ON's limitations? Let's say I have thousands of pages,
with many items that are flagged. What happens when I run a search on
these flagged items? Will it be unbearably slow?

Depends.

There isn't any one answer to that because there are too many variables.
One big variable is your hardware: how fast is your machine? How much RAM
do you have?

Plus "unbearably slow" is a rather subjective thing -- what might seem
really slow to me might not seem that way to you, or vice-versa.

I can tell you this -- searching across thousands of pages with note flags
is a lot faster in OneNote than it is in a Mead binder.



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-Ben-
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[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

I'll echo Ben's answer that "It depends." - No matter what the
program/DBMS, if you have a lot of data, higher-end hardware and lots of
RAM will make operations on that large set of data faster.

I have close to 1500 pages with heavy use of flags and I have no problems
searching on my Toshiba 3500 (1.2GHz/512MB RAM).