I've made a change recently, where if there's a blog post, web article, magazine articles, or even watch a video, I need to take notes on it. Obsidian is great for that, where I can put a link in, and it pops out a page for me to write any thoughts that come to mind from it, even if it's a single sentence or two. It's a slight barrier, but makes the feeling of reading something much more worthwhile, and also is interesting to make connections to other things I've read.
That's a good idea. I've seen Obsidian, but I'm taking notes on notepad, just to be sure I write it with hand. It's so hard for me because I was typing more than writing, so I kinda forget to write :). But I like your approach, notes are great because 5 minutes after reading something you forget almost all of it :)
Notepad works too! I think the key is to force yourself to actively think when reading, and if you don't want to do that, then don't bother reading. Obsidian helps because of the ease to linking other notes, and that I think it a big benefit when you start having a bunch of notes.
QuickAdd and Templater. It's a custom macro that takes the url, does a request, pulls the relevant information (site name, title) from the head, and then uses a capture to use the template to put the file in the correct path. Lowers the number of steps required to get a good page to take notes.
