I read 50+ books but remembered nothing

Hey there,

Reading books won't help you if you can't remember what you read.

I used to devour sales books and leadership content, only to forget 90% of it within a week. You're already stretched thin with calls, meetings, quota pressure, and family commitments. The last thing you need is to waste precious time reading insights that evaporate the moment you close the book. The problem isn't your memory, it's your system.

Here's what I'm going to show you today:

• How to capture insights from physical books in seconds (not hours)

• The science-backed technique that locks learning into your brain

• How to make every book you've ever read work for you daily

• Bonus: highlights from Nate Nasralla’s latest book “Brief & Brilliant”

Let me walk you through it.

3 Steps To Remember Everything You Read Without Adding More Work To Your Day

To actually retain what you're learning, you need a system that works with your brain, not against it.

Here's the framework that changed everything for me.

Step 1: Capture Highlights Instantly

Stop manually typing out quotes and insights. It's killing your momentum.

With a tool like Readwise, you can snap a photo of any page in a physical book, and the app automatically digitizes your highlights. You tag them, categorize them, and they're saved forever. No more losing those brilliant ideas you scribbled in margins at 11 PM.

This takes 10 seconds per highlight, which means you can capture insights as fast as you read them.

Step 2: Sync Everything To Your Brain (And Your Notes)

Your highlights are useless if they're buried in an app you never open.

Readwise automatically syncs to whatever note-taking system you already use: Notion, Evernote, Apple Notes, whatever. This means every insight you capture flows directly into your existing workflow without you lifting a finger.

No extra steps. No switching between apps. Just seamless knowledge transfer that actually sticks.

Step 3: Review Using Spaced Repetition

Here's the secret weapon: spaced repetition review.

Set up a daily 2-minute review in Readwise (I do 5 highlights every morning), and the app resurfaces your key learnings at scientifically optimized intervals. This is how your brain actually commits information to long-term memory.

Instead of reading 50 books and forgetting them, you read 10 and master them.

Here's what you learned today:

• Capture book highlights in seconds with photo technology instead of manual typing

• Auto-sync your insights to your existing note-taking system for zero friction

• Use daily spaced repetition reviews to cement learning into long-term memory

Ready to get started? Get 60 days of Readwise for free here and start building your personal knowledge vault today.

Bonus: Here’s a copy of my highlights from "Brief and Brilliant" by Nate Nasralla, being released on 11/20, so you can see exactly how this works in action.)

Click the image below to read the first two parts of Nate’s book before it officially launches:

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