You’re consuming too much content. There’s way too much stuff out there and you’ll never get to it all. Focus instead on creating more. Create from what you consume. This goes for reading or watching or anything really. Once that core idea is internalised here’s a 3 step process for trying to get more out of the information you’ve read.
Capture
The first thing is to capture the good ideas and thoughts you come across. For reading this can be highlighting or taking notes. Highlights should be selective. Add notes to the highlights you do take to capture the “why” you want to remember it
The main thing is to be selective about what you read. Instead of reading whatever you come across as it passes by you, be selective and instead maybe save others for later. Read by groups or themes and focus on select areas.
Process
This is how you process the highlights and notes from the capture stage. Here you’re going to compile them into atomic notes about the source. Use your own words and focus on what you want to remember from it. Use it to answer questions you had about it. Try link this to other things you’ve written or read about.
Create
Create something, anything. Explain a topic or your thoughts about it. Review what you’ve read through the last week and write about the best ones. A more ambitious one but more worthwhile is to do a synthesis essay of connecting ideas from multiple sources and writing about how they interrelate.