You are actually not alone. You need to revisit new information because we forget things exponentially unless we remind ourselves. In psychology, such pattern

You are actually not alone. You need to revisit new information because we forget things exponentially unless we remind ourselves. In psychology, such pattern is shown by the forgetting curve [0]. Similar to you, I was concerned once that I was forgetting a lot of new information about programming. Therefore I wrote an open source software to automate spaced repetition with minimal friction while coding [1]. Basically, you write down new information as you come across it, and you get a weekly digest email. Everyday, try to write information down on a piece of paper or on your machine. The act of writing down the information in your own words alone could help you retain memory. The retention could be all the more improved when you continually revisit what you have written down. This habit has worked well in my case for the last 2-3 years. Hope it could work for you too. - [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve - [1] https://github.com/dnote/dnote https://github.com/dnote/dnote