Moby Dick Workout
The article discusses a test to evaluate the performance of productivity apps, specifically their ability to handle large amounts of user-generated content. The test, called the Moby Dick Workout, involves opening and manipulating the text of Moby Dick to assess the app's speed and responsiveness. The author uses this test to evaluate the performance of their own app, Bike Outliner, and provides test files in various formats for others to use.
- ▪The Moby Dick Workout test is used to evaluate the performance of productivity apps.
- ▪The test involves opening and manipulating the text of Moby Dick to assess the app's speed and responsiveness.
- ▪The author provides test files in various formats, including bike, OPML, and Markdown, for others to use.
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Moby Dick Workout 12 Apr 2022 How many items should your todo list handle? Not the most pressing question in the world, but one that I sometimes wonder about. I think productivity apps should scale to “user generated” content. I don’t expect every app to load multi-gigabyte log files, but it should handle what I can write myself. I use “Moby Dick” to test that. I know it’s longer and uses bigger words than anything I’ll write. If the app works well with “Moby Dick” then that’s a good indication that it will handle my needs also. Here’s the test: Open “Moby Dick”. Fast? Scroll to end. Resize the window. Fast? Scroll to middle. Resize the window. Fast? Select all. Cut, Paste, Undo. Redo. App still standing? Edit some content near the middle.
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