I decided to create this workflow based on my belief that if information is synced into my Obsidian vault then that data should be completely owned by the tool that synced it. It should never be edited within my vault, and it should be able to be deleted and resynced (hard resync) from that tool with little to no impact to my vault. If you don't agree with this mindset then no worries! This workflow can still help you keep track of which articles you have processed and which ones have new highlights to process. Even if you think this workflow isn't for you, you might learn something in this that might help you solve some problems in your own vault.
Since I only edit highlights and notes from Readwise in Readwise I had to have a way of knowing which highlights I have reviewed/processed and which highlights I still need to do that for. Since I wanted to be abnle to do a hard resync that had to live completely outside of the information that Readwise tracks in my vault. So I created a system in wh