Agree with user_7e. Pushing yourself like that is counterproductive. Once your brain is tired it’s not learning much. And if you continue to press, you develop a bad association and your brain is wired to get rid of unpleasant memories.
I learning habits, physical or mental, 15 mins a day is better than solid training.
It takes time to develop these techniques and it takes work, which is why most people quit. You seem to have taken on a full size practice for your
Much harder to absorb unprocessed or meaningless information especially in large volumes. Memory palaces by themselves serve to jog you memory but you can’t expect them to encode text or involved techical details by themselves. Find some way to engage with the material. To make it more interesting and less abstract.
I have to take in a lot of software documentation. I turn the abstractions into thing, animals, buildings, whatever and draw pictures and write notes on each picture element. Perhaps, make Mind Map out of it but invest more in the elements than just colored circles.
A journey can serve as a memory palace. Is there a hike or route you travell routinely and know well? Identify locations along the way and use those to store memories. A 50 locus memory palace is well beyond my range but I can easily do 50 locii on a hike.!
Here’s something I drew up to collect all the parts associated with the response object. Most people would add some color. It’s not art. It’s cartoons. You can cut and paste online images if you liked. It takes time, but when I’m done, I have the material.
