Summary of How I Remember Everything I Read

Key Strategies and Tips:

Level 1: The Muggle
- Passive reading without engagement (no highlighting or note-taking).
- Acknowledges the forgetting curve, which indicates that memory decays over time without active engagement.
Level 2: The Squib
- Begins to highlight or underline key points in the text.
- Recognizes that highlighting alone does not significantly improve memory retention.
Level 3: Hufflepuff
- Implements a systematic review of highlights using tools like Readwise.
- Receives daily emails with random highlights to encourage revisiting important concepts.
Level 4: Ravenclaw
- Utilizes a note-taking app (e.g., Notion) to pull in highlights systematically.
- Still passive; relies on future motivation to review highlights.
Level 5: Dumbledore's Army
- Engages more actively by taking quick notes and summarizing books in three sentences.
- Uses templates in Notion for structured book reviews, enhancing understanding and retention.
Level 6: Order of the Phoenix
- Expands on level five by creating literature notes that summarize key insights and personal reflections from impactful books.
- Acknowledges that this process is time-consuming but valuable for deeper understanding.
Level 7: Dumbledore
- Adopts the Zettelkasten method (or evergreen notes) for note-taking, which focuses on creating self-contained notes linked to broader themes and topics.
- Encourages ongoing consolidation of insights to develop a comprehensive understanding of various subjects.

Ali emphasizes the importance of engaging with material actively to retain knowledge and apply it in real life.

He shares that using Notion has transformed his productivity and organization across various aspects of his life.

The video encourages viewers to adopt these strategies to create a personal knowledge base that can be referenced in the future.

— 01:16 — « I'm a dumbass and therefore I just forget everything that I read. »

— 05:48 — « If you can just summarize a book in three sentences, that's like a really fantastic way of actually engaging with the content. »

— 15:30 — « You're a dumbass and you're going to forget everything that you read otherwise. »