When working with notebook entries, you may encounter performance slowdowns as your entries grow. This guide will help you understand size limits and provide practical tips for maintaining smooth performance.
Understanding Notebook Entry Limits
One of the main factors affecting the performance when using a notebook entry is the total number of table cells.
- Warning threshold (17,500 cells): When the total count of table cells in an entry exceeds 17,500, we recommend that you break up the entry into smaller parts.
- Maximum limit (35,000 cells): While you will not be blocked from exceeding this 35,000 total table cell limit, Benchling will not be able to assist with performance issues past this scale.
Tips for Optimizing Tables
- Remove unnecessary columns to reduce the total cell count
Tips for Navigating Large Entries
- Collapse large tables when not actively using them
- When working on a single large table, open the table in full-screen mode
- Use sections to organize content logically. Collapse the sections when not in use
- Use the table of contents sidebar to jump to content more easily
Tips for splitting entries
Check out this Benchling Learning Labs course on notebook templates, which includes best practices to optimize performance.