I've tried to keep my journal in Obsidian, and it doesn't stick.
While I do read books on Kindle, what I love is sitting down with a book in hand reading it. No power needed, just the feeling of paper and the gentle swish as a pages gets turned.
Heck I even prefer the tactility of interacting with my iPad Pro over the mouse and keyboard experience of working with a traditional operating system.
There is something about these physical tactile events that makes them feel more meaningful for me.
The Benefits of Tactility
Not that long ago I read an article saying that we remember more about what we read in a book than what we find online, which lines up with what I learned when I read The Death of Expertise.
The very act of searching for information makes people think they've learned something, when in fact they're more likely to be immersed in yet more data they do not understand.1
But you can't just search the "titles" of a book and catch the excerpts that a search engine provides without clicking through to the content. You have to dig into it and spend some time with the content. You have to dedicate the only non-renewable resource you have, your time.
Merely searching invokes the Dunning-Kruger Effect2. You think you know the most about a subject when you know the least about it. It's only once you've spent time focused on a subject that you realize how little you know.
It's about being slow
So much of what we do regularly is about being fast. Getting through more of anything faster because that's "productive".
But expertise is about making slow steady progress with your best efforts daily.
I'm trying to take that to heart. More focus when it's focus time. Clear breaks where I'm simply not around and not worrying about anything digital. Not listening to a book or trying to occupy my mind with anything that's thinking. Maybe some music and a house to paint, but no way to reach me unless you're direct family.