I built a CLI to break my highlights out of Apple Books (opens in new tab)

I read a lot of non-fiction. Popular science, negotiation theory, cosmology, whatever looks interesting. I highlight passages, scribble notes, feel productive. A month later I remember maybe five percent of the book. The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve doesn't care about good intentions. Without active review, most of what you read evaporates. To actually retain things you need to go back to your notes, build summaries, run flashcards. But to review your notes, you first need to get them out of w...