Check if Obsidian has a note length limit
Repeated problem · 90-day evidence
Who experiences it
Google Keep users who capture long-form content—assignments, research notes, outlines—and repeatedly get blocked by the per-note character cap, including users already considering migrating their whole note library to Obsidian.
Workflow
Capture and draft long notes in Google Keep → hit the character ceiling mid-write → forced to split, trim, or abandon content → search for a replacement and check whether it has similar limits → decide whether to migrate an accumulated library of notes.
Possible direction
An unlimited-length local Markdown note app with a guided Google Takeout importer that preserves attachments, labels, and drawings during migration.
Current context
Google Keep's per-note cap sits around 19,999–20,000 characters, while Obsidian stores notes as plain Markdown files with no practical length limit—so the core 'does it have limits' question is already answered. Migration tooling also exists (Google Takeout export plus converters like Jimmy, and Keep importers for Memos/Joplin), leaving the weaker spot as frictionless Keep→Markdown migration that reliably carries over attachments, labels, and drawings.
Observed from 3 distinct users across 1 discussion threads in the 90 days ending 2026-08-13. Latest evidence: 2026-08-07.
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