Remind me why newspapers are required for UPSC preparation.

Hi. I mostly never missed a newspaper ever since I started my UPSC preparation.

Earlier I used to take notes from newspapers (a separate note for schemes, a separate note for reports, taking general notes from newspaper on Google Notes app)

After sometime, I realised that a lot of time goes in taking notes from the newspaper and low to no time for revision. So I stopped them midway.

Now I depend on institutes monthly magazines. I read newspaper just for the sake of it and started to avoid the editorial section entirely.

The problem is, newspaper reading started to feel like a duty, a habit. Despite knowing that newspapers are an integral part of the preparation, I lost the purpose of reading the newspaper. I stopped taking notes from it. It feels superfluous now because of institute current affairs materials.

Please remind me the purpose of reading newspapers for UPSC exams. You can share your experiences, your best practices.

Also, please tell me how to remember the news that we read. I seem to forget it within minutes of reading it.

Would love veteran's views.