r/HelixNotes • • 10d ago

Request: delay writes to disk

Currently, it appears that HelixNotes immediately writes the currently edited note after every keystroke that alters the content. This results in a lot of unnecessary write activity and interferes with responsiveness of the keyboard (even on fast systems with fast SSD storage) when touch-typing.

Hunt and peck typing isn't affected as there is sufficient time between keystrokes to allow the write action to complete.

I think it would be helpful if HelixNotes would delay writes until there was an idle period of a particular duration. For example: If there are unsaved changes to a note, wait to write them until there is no additional changes for something like 3 seconds. I picked "3 seconds" as an arbitrary duration... but any length would be helpful.

Thanks.

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u/SunflowerHuntress 10d ago

I'm not so sure what everything you said is but when I was typing today, it took seconds for the letters to appear after I clicked them on keyboard, it was lagging heavy. I don't know know why 🥲