Joan Westenberg on why she deleted all her Obsidian notes and a response by Elizabeth Tai.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain
https://elizabethtai.com/2025/06/29/i-support-deleting-your-second-brain
I never maintaned such elaborate systems of notes as the process felt like work. I usually take raw, metadata-less notes I have an immediate or short-medium term need for, and archive only a fraction of them.