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I felt the same way about Obsidian. It seemed really helpful on the surface but after a few days of using it, I realized I was spending more time recording everything and making sure to use the correct backlinks than I was actually learning anything. Just bookmarking pages gets you the majority of the benefit of meticulously organizing your notes, while requiring next to zero effort.

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IMO, the advantage of apps like Obsidian is that you don't have to organize everything meticulously.

1. You just create a new note, 2. give it some tags in square brackets "[[Tag]]" 3. and if it direcrly related to a note you recall making, make that connection

That's it. With time the amounf notes grows, and the amount of interesting connections grows too.

It is also important to note, that the process should note be automated. If you want to learn something, you need to make the time to write the note yourself, as opposed to simply copy/pasting.

Bookmarking a page doesn't mean you absorb its contents, and I don't think a few days is adequate time to perfect these techniques.

I'm the same as you, but a month or so in and still learning. Personally it's a price i'm willing to take for what will be a lifelong mission

A lifes work of bookmarks isn't very helpful in the grand scheme of things

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