My take is don't curate notes to excess or as its own end. Take notes to the extent that it's useful and (like email) don't over-invest in backlinking, tagging, and categorization -- search is a helluva drug. I find a lightly structured process for how I capture notes on upcoming trips (mostly during the planning phase), content I might consume later, bookmarks, books or courses I want to record some notes on, topics I can truly foresee wanting to come back to, and so in. I also normed into doing a weekly note where I capture a few notes a day that I'll want to refer back to, and track what I'm focused on that week. The dominant theme for me is a little goes a long way, and my goal is to be more productive in terms of writing and recall, not to be encyclopedic. This is absolutely ymmv, horses-for-courses think, I'm almost certain. But it's useful to know that there are many useful stops along the continuum as you're triangulating towards yours (imo).
Also, Obsidian is excellent software -- for me it's supplanted Ulysses/Bear, bookmark managers and web clippers, and todo managers. The plugin ecosystem is the deal, even as Stephano and team keep improving the core. I think it's reached enough users at this point, that even if they pivoted to a less non-evil heading, it seems like someone would come in behind them and offer an alternative for your folders and folders of md.
Also, Obsidian is excellent software -- for me it's supplanted Ulysses/Bear, bookmark managers and web clippers, and todo managers. The plugin ecosystem is the deal, even as Stephano and team keep improving the core. I think it's reached enough users at this point, that even if they pivoted to a less non-evil heading, it seems like someone would come in behind them and offer an alternative for your folders and folders of md.