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For the most time I just kept tabs open or used the post save feature in Reddit, Mastodon and Lemmy. That way I collected dozens if not hundreds of things that were vaguely interesting but I never got around to looking at them anyomere and when I was looking for something specific I had to check multiple places, each with less than optimal search functions.
Last year I decided to just create a personal wiki. MediaWiki is FOSS, easy to set up (especially with docker), accessible from all my devices and has a huge community because of Wikipedia. I have specific articles for different topics:
Whenever I find an interesting link, I check if I already have an article that it fits into and if not, I create one. That way everything is roughly grouped by topic, I can leave notes and I have a nice search function and even a history that keeps references to stuff I edited or deleted.
Edit: the downside is that saving a link takes a bit longer, especially when I'm on my phone. Because of that I occasionally still save links the way I used to and if I still think they're relevant after a few days, I move them to the wiki.
I also run a personal wiki, but instead of MediaWiki I chose DokuWiki as it's much lighter and uses plaintext instead of databases for storing information. It fits me well and there are plenty of plugins as well.
Instead of a personal wiki I chose to use a personal git repo for notes, which can be built as a static website if I want. Saving a link takes anywhere from a few seconds (saving it to a markdown file) to a few seconds more (committing that file to the repo and pushing).
The structure and concept of the notes repo is basically the same as your wiki.
I still save webpages I want to read later locally with Wallabag. Websites are in many ways an ephemeral thing, what you want to read later might not be there later.
Do you have a good app to edit that on mobile? I remember that I've looked into that before (more for a jekyll blog than notes but same idea) and I couldn't find anything that I liked...
... which is something I could add to my open questions article!
I used Obsidian for a bit but recently switched to Markor which I quite like.
I do all the git stuff via cli on Termux. To be fair I do most of my notes on a PC so I don't mind if the mobile experience is a bit hacky, with a couple aliases it's easy enough. Alternatively I could edit files directly in on git server website (I run a self hosted git server but ymmv). For the major git servers like Github there are probably apps that make it more comfortable.
The markdown files are appropriately structured so I can run Hugo (config and layout files in a separate repo for tidiness sake) and get a static site build.
I host my own GitLab so using its web IDE is an option. A proper offline solution for mobile would be cool though, especially because situations in which I don't have my laptop with me tend to overlap with situations where I don't have a proper internet connection, especially on local trains.
The personal wiki idea is so insanely nerdy and obsessive and might just be the thing that pushes me to start self-hosting stuff. That's such an amazing idea.
Even more so when you consider that my initial impulse to set it up was to be a better host when my friends visit. Like the stereotype of staff at high end restaurants and hotels taking notes on their guests' preferences. I kept forgetting important stuff like allergies and now with the wiki, I have everyone's favorite drinks and snacks ready, plan dinner that everyone likes, that kind of stuff.
From there it was just a tiny step to use the wiki to keep track of other stuff that would otherwise sit in the back of my brain or in some badly-maintained list until I forget.