Know what you're reading. Capture what matters. Remember it when it counts.
Built for: readers with a real backlog across formats and sources: one system for library holds, owned books, and audiobooks, no separate app per format.
ReadHQ is the Reading Operating System: the Notion system that turns every reading session, highlight, and finished book into one calm home base, replacing the Notes app, a Goodreads account you stopped updating, library due-date texts, and the guilt of a to-be-read pile you've stopped looking at. Built for physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks, not just whatever you happen to be holding right now.
One of our newer systems, with 203 reviews so far, averaging 4.7/5.
The real ReadHQ system. Today, My Library, Reading, and Ideas previews below.
Limited time
Costs less than a single premium tracker subscription, and you keep it forever.
β β β β β 4.7/5 Β· 203 reviews Buy ReadHQ for $47 βTakes you to checkout, quick and secure, and you land right back here after.
βOne sentence after most sessions is all I write. Somehow that is enough to remember the book months later.β β Clara Z.
βUsed to abandon books mid-chapter and forget why. The quick reason field stopped that cycle.β β Christopher G.
βBookTube inspiration finally had a place to land that was not another abandoned spreadsheet.β β Matthew V.
Building more than one system? Get all 5 HQ systems for $177 instead of $235 separately (see the bundle β)
No subscriptions, no locked tiers: the full system, every page, unlocked at $47. Most reading apps charge a recurring fee or bury real tracking behind a paywall; ReadHQ is one payment, once, and it's yours for as long as you're reading.
What you're actually choosing between:
Free, but scattered across a notes app, a bookmark, and a to-be-read pile you've stopped looking at.
A typical reading-tracker subscription: social features you didn't ask for, billed every month, gone the day you stop paying.
Every format, every book, one structured home. Yours for good, no recurring charge.
Choose → Read → Capture → Remember → Return. ReadHQ gets more useful every book — organized around the way real readers actually think, so you always know what to pick up today and what's still worth revisiting.
Pick up where you left off. Shows the book in progress with your last page pre-filled, ideas due for a revisit, and what's next on your TBR — nothing to maintain, all pulled in automatically.
Every book sorted into Reading, TBR, Finished, or Re-Reading. "Reading now" and "Up next" are always front and center — the one shelf that replaces Goodreads and a scattered TBR pile.
The session log. Title and last page auto-fill from your previous session — add where you got to and one line on what stayed with you, then save. About 20 seconds a session.
Your memory layer. "One sentence is valid." Set a review date on anything worth keeping, and it resurfaces here — and on Today — instead of getting buried in a notes app you never reopen.
Two optional tools open up when you want more depth, though neither is required to get value on day one.
Optional fuller notes for the books that deserve more than one sentence — kept separate from quick capture so Ideas never turns into homework.
The shelves only you could create. Group books by idea, season, mood, or personal canon — real examples include Building Something, Return To These, Personal Canon, Quiet Sunday Reads, and Slow Reads.
Every screenshot below is the real ReadHQ system, not a mockup.
The real system. What ReadHQ looks like, on desktop and mobile.
My Library. Every book, grouped by stage, at a glance.
My Library. The book-covers view — every cover, one grid.
Reading. The real session log — last page pre-filled, one line on what stayed with you.
Ideas. Ideas worth keeping, with a Revisit section that resurfaces them for you.
Shelves. Custom Collections — Personal Canon, Quiet Sunday Reads, and more.
Set it up in five minutes, and ReadHQ keeps remembering every book from there.
Buy ReadHQ for $47 β30-day defect protection
Building more than one system? Get all 5 HQ systems for $177 instead of $235 separately (see the bundle β)
ReadHQ isn't built around the assumption that every book is a physical copy you finish start to end. Format is a first-class field, and library holds and audiobooks get real tracking, something a lot of trackers bolt on as an afterthought.
ReadHQ tracks each book from to-read to finished, so there's no more losing track of what stage something is actually in.
The deeper tools sit untouched until a book actually calls for them β nothing to build before you can start reading.
Title, author, and format. That's the whole setup.
Record a reading session or a highlight from something you're reading right now, anything.
From here, the system starts building the memory for you. Everything else is optional, added only when and if you need it.
| ReadHQ | Notes app | StoryGraph Plus (~$5/mo) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-time price | β $47 | Free, gone if forgotten | β ~$60/yr |
| Works for every format | β Physical, ebook, audiobook | β | Tracks, doesn't organize by format |
| Library-hold & due-date tracking | β | β | β |
| You keep the data | β Yours forever | Easy to lose | β Gone if you stop paying |
| Time to set up | β 5 minutes | Ongoing effort | Varies |
StoryGraph Plus pricing is a named, publicly listed competitor price (in USD), not an average or invented figure.
203 reviews from real TrueStack customers. This is one of our newer systems, so this number is still growing.
Yes, add books manually or paste in a list; each gets its own page in My Library with stage, format, and notes.
Yes, Format is a field on every book, so physical, ebook, and audiobook all live in the same system, and library holds get their own due-date tracking so you're not relying on a text from the library app.
No. Onboarding is three steps: add a book, log one session, you're ready, and it gets you from blank page to a working system in under five minutes.
You'll get an email with your system link. Open it and click Notion's "Duplicate" button in the top right to add your own copy, then follow the 3-step Setup guide inside. No account, install, or waiting involved.
They live directly on each book's page and roll into Ideas, so your best lines and takeaways are searchable in one place, forever — and you can set a review date to bring any of them back later.
Probably. The core loop (Today, My Library, Reading, Ideas) is built for readers with a real, ongoing backlog. If you read casually and don't have a to-be-read pile to manage, a plain notes app will do the job just as well.
Yes, lifetime access for one price, no subscription.
If something's actually broken (a bad link, a missing page, or the system not matching what's shown here), tell us within 30 days and we'll fix it or refund you. Full terms in our Refund Policy.
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