Take generous notes. With practice, you'll develop your own _language_ for taking notes. Personally, for me, the act of writing down—or typing if that works bet

Take generous notes. With practice, you'll develop your own _language_ for taking notes. Personally, for me, the act of writing down—or typing if that works better for you—is almost as if reading the content twice, which in some sense it is. I go back to my notes every now and then. After years of doing it, I've learned to subconsciously devise an index of my own which is useful for me to remember a gist of what I learned, and also lets me figure out where to go look for if I need a deeper look into it. Like other comments have mentioned, applying what you learn is also important for recollecting information after any reasonable period. If something's not used by at a later point, is there really a point to remember it? Of course, there's the joy of remembering things just for the sake of it which I'm not discounting. But party trick trivia for some reason has always lasted longer in memory than essentials :-) beats me as to why.