Maximum of 30 notes ( from outline view ) rendered in the Text Pane

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Hi Folks:

I’ve exploded a file of annotations made in Devonthink. None of the annotations is particularly long. There are 73 of the them and when I select them in bulk they do not render in the text pane. From poking around it seems that the rendering stops with the 30tht note. When I select the 30th note the first 29 disappear from the text pane. Is this intentional ?

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I set a cutoff in one of the recent releases because it was easy to say “Select All” in a document with 4000 notes and then you have to wait and wait…

I’ll relax that cutoff in the next release; I think it’s already done in the current backstage release.

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:+1:. 4K would be painful indeed!

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Confirmed (in b800). Barring further beta changes, the multi-selection limit will increase from 30 to 300 items in the next public release.

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The only problem is that some times you really do want to select ALL, would it make sense to pop up a dialog with the actual note count and the option to take ‘em all if you don’t mind the wait?

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I’m intrigued as to how big ‘ALL’ is in the case you have in mind, and presuming the new larger 300-item alowance. I think the biggest container content count I have is c.1,200†. As it happens those notes have little/no $Text, but they might.

A different perspective on large tests is that I have cascading template reports that use >2.5k notes and whose HTML I occasionally view. On my fast M4max, it takes a a few seconds to load (i.e. enough that I notice a wait—but still fast). On a less powerful system it might choke things up.

I believe the selection count is a quick and available way of gauging ‘too much info’, given that some notes might have no $Text and others a long essay.

Given that the export pane (I’ve not tried preview in that context, as I’ve no need), is that real need to set the limit higher? IOW, is there ROI for doing this when export is easy to use to show a large composite text. I don’t have a strong view for a particular outcome, but am just exploring the problem.

†. The bot master listing in my PhD Research into all Wikipedia bot accounts from the first (‘Rambot’ in 2002) to date.