Second Read saves any text on your screen, including the text you cannot select, and then puts it back in front of you on every new tab until you have read it again.
Free. Works offline. Nothing you capture leaves your computer.
You read more in a week than your grandparents read in a year, and by Friday you could not tell anyone what was in it. The reading is not the problem. The returning is. Every tool ever built will hold your highlights, and almost none of them will make you look at one again, because that requires you to remember to open an app you have already forgotten about.
Instapaper, Pocket, Readwise, a Notes app, a folder of screenshots. Every one of them will hold what you saved. Not one of them will make you look at it again.
Second Read closes that gap by putting one thing you chose back in front of you, over and over, until it sticks to your brain.
Don't merely read. Read again.
“I would rather read the best 100 books over and over again” until I absorb them, rather than read all the books.
Naval Ravikant says his attention is poor, He skims and jumps around, and cannot tell you a specific passage or quote from a book he loves. What he does instead is return to the same hundred books, again and again, until they are absorbed and woven into how he thinks.
Most of us read far more than he does and return to none of it.
Step I
Catch it
Select the text, or drag a box around anything at all. Slides and screenshots included.
Step II
Forget it
Close the tab. This part is genuinely the instruction.
Step III
Meet it again
Every new tab brings back whatever you have gone longest without seeing.
Second Read
