Re learning music theory as an adult

I've been going through this too so hopefully I can offer some help to get you pointed in the right direction.

If you knew how to read sheet music before, you'll pick it up again quickly through practice.

12tone has a good series of videos called Building Blocks. I'd start there and learn about notes, intervals, the circle of 5ths, how chords are constructed, scales and modes. LINK

Another good channel is Jake Lizzio's Signals Music Studio. LINK

Rick Beato will be over your head at first but he also has a few basic lessons. LINK

I would also buy the Beato Book. If you watch when he's doing a live stream, he usually announces a discount code you can use.

Another good one is Tommasso Zillio's Music Theory for Guitar. LINK

You might also consider getting a cheap keyboard if you don't already have one. Some of the theory stuff is easier to learn on a keyboard.

Good deal. Like I said, I've been walking down this road too and I'm only slightly ahead of you. But if you have any specific questions, feel free to ask and I'll try to help.

A while back, a friend of mine asked me to teach him about music theory. I had what I thought was a reasonable understanding of it so I started explaining about intervals and how to make chords out of them, etc. I quickly reached the limit of my knowledge and started digging deeper into different scales and modes and working my way down the rabbit hole. No idea how deep it goes but it's pretty deep already.

Good luck with it and if you run across any websites or videos that are helpful, please pass them along.

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Also found a book called guitar fretboard workbook

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I think I have that book. If it's the one I'm thinking about, it teaches the fretboard by memorizing a bunch of patterns. I think that's not a good approach. I like Tommasso's way better. Every day pick a note at random. Let's use A as an example. An A will be somewhere between the 1st & 12th frets on every string. Find the A on the first string - 5th fret. Then 2nd string - 12th fret, next string - 7th fret and so on. Practice by playing the note on every string from top to bottom and back again while saying the name of the note. Do that for 5 minutes. Tomorrow pick a different note. Pretty soon you will know the fretboard.