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Mike Schmitz@mikeschmitz@mastodon.social (2026-10-27 05:12:01)
When you use the Web Clipper to save entire articles, you end up just recreating your read-later list (and the giant backlog of unread articles that come with it) inside Obsidian.
But Obsidian was never meant to be your read-later service. It's a place to develop your ideas.
It’s a workshop, not a library.
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Thomas Mathoi@thomas_mathoi@mastodon.social (2026-10-27 14:57:43)
@mikeschmitz But why not also read, link and process reference material in Obsidian?
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Mike Schmitz@mikeschmitz@mastodon.social (2026-10-29 07:12:06)
@thomas_mathoi a fair question 😊 for some, that’s totally fine. But if you have had trouble keeping up with things you’ve clipped in the past, I’d advise against for a couple of reasons:
1. Avoid the backlog guilt
2. Keeping your vault full of YOUR ideas
Personally I think Obsidian is better as a workshop for developing what you already have than as alibrary of potential new sources.