Thank you everyone for the comments. I think either my question wasn’t worded correctly, or we just have different styles of processes, which is great because it just shows more diversity in working on things.
When I reflected on my own question, here’s my following example of what I know and back then that I was referring about. I am still a newbie to DTPO, few weeks into it. Before that I was an Evernote Premium user for several years.
Here’s a reading/archival workflow I have had for almost 2 years now.
RSS Feeds > Feedly > Pocket > Evernote
All my feeds would go to Feedly, then I would save the ones I want to read in Pocket, then the ones that were worthwhile for reference or whatever I needed was sent to Evernote for storage.
Now that I switched to DTPO, I look back and realized this maybe was not the best solution. I probably should have saved the article as a PDF, OCR’d and then stored. Instead of dealing with Evernote format junk.
Lesson learned - PDF when possible. It can go anywhere.
I have a similar processes for other areas of my life. So in regards to my earlier question, I currently have 1 database, because of the way my areas of focus overlap, I am sure 3-5 years from now, I will look back and say, I probably didn’t need it all in 1 database. Or I would tell someone new to DTPO, my life experience with DTPO and have I noticed the differences between 1 db or multiple.
This post by @anon41602260 that @JohnAtl mentioned is helping me in reviewing my process. Thank you all.