In 30 years, computers got 100x faster. Our learning method stayed the same: read → highlight → re-read → forget → re-read again.

I shared with EMBA students who have to digest hundreds of pages of materials every month — textbooks, case studies, industry reports. They have demanding jobs, families, and a finite number of hours. The ones who fall behind aren't less capable. They just don't have a system.

A few months ago I found a way to break that cycle. It combines a century-old insight about how knowledge works with modern AI. I open-sourced the result as VaultForge.

This is the story of what it does and how it's built.

The Method Was Always There — But It Had Two Bottlenecks