Hit 100 episodes of One Piece and I finally get why people call it a binge monster

My buddy Dave did the opposite of your note trick and it bit him hard. He got to around episode 300 of One Piece, took a two month break for a new job, then came back and had no clue who half the side characters were or why some guy with a weird hat was suddenly important. He ended up restarting from episode 1, which put him back almost a year. Now he keeps a notebook by the couch and writes one line per arc, just a name and what happened, and he says it saved him when he did the same thing again with Naruto. Your phone notes are basically the smarter version of that, so keep at it. The funny part is he still swears the restart was worth it because he caught a bunch of stuff he missed the first time.