Maximum database size and number of notes ref Evernote migration

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I am moving over from Evernote where I have around 13,000 notes collected over 12 years with a total storage size of 23Gb. Is Bear capable of dealing with this. In Evernote you can have several databases linked but in Bear there appears just to be the one file. Any advice or comments please.

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I have around 2k notes and 1 GB, and everything runs smoothly, even on my 2017 MacBook. Some users in the forum have reported databases comparable in size to yours, and Bear is working well for them too: How many notes do you have? Let's share our Bear setups! šŸ» - #3 by PeterT

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I have 13715 notes and a database size of 140.2G.
Everything runs smoothly on my MBP, iPhone and iPad.
My interests are business, home, private, 5 languages and culinary.

I woul like it very much to split my database in several workspaces, with each workspace its own set of tags.

The Archive can than also be a seperate workspace and I could have the possibility to sync only a choice of workspaces to my phone.

Unfortunately, according to the devs it is too complicated to realize.

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Hi Peter!
I know youā€™ve been just as me a big advocate of totally separated workspace. But I do think that with just a few minor tweaks to your tagging system, you will be very happy once the ā€œfocus on tagā€ feature is available. Plus, youā€™ll gain capabilities that wouldnā€™t be possible with independent workspaces. Give it a try when itā€™s available. I was very disappointed at first too, but now, if I had to choose, Iā€™d go with the approach the devs selected.

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Thanks Peter, this has given me confidence to proceed with my migration from Evernote. I also like the idea of separate workspaces if it means having a smaller and more agile setup on my iPhone/iPad. I assume that it is not possible to have the full database on each device and that the app downloads notes as needed when searched for. This is a big problem for me in Evernote when I am out of signal range on my iPhone but need to look something up and the search finds nothing.

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Thank you for this comment. One thing I am really appreciating about Bear is the tagging system and how easy it is to make nested tags and then immediately see all sub-tagged entries when selecting the top level note (much harder in Evernote). I will definitely look out for the ā€œfocus on tagā€ feature.
My real remaining difficulty is finding the best way to get emails and links within emails into Bear as there is no direct email into Bear facility.

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I too would die for a way to selectively disable syncing for some notes (tags?) in the app!

Also, in theory, itā€™s already implemented as a mechanism: very large notes (500k+ characters) already are not selectively synced!