For non-fiction: Remembering key concepts is a lot easier if you try to apply what you've learned to other articles, books or even the news you read. Try to ac

For non-fiction: Remembering key concepts is a lot easier if you try to apply what you've learned to other articles, books or even the news you read. Try to actively remember what you recently read and how it fits with what you're reading now. Which point does the author make? Does it concur with what you've read before? Active recall and the application of recently acquired knowledge to novel ideas garantuees remembering key concepts for far longer than otherwise. Also, thinking about key concepts in connection with various topics makes your brain rewire the information and you'll remember it more easily ever after.