[dominotw]

I've learnt so much over the years and barely remember any of it. I wonder whats the point of studying all this if I am going to forget 90% of it in couple of months. How do people deal with this? Should I convert everything I learn into some sort of cliff notes for rapid reacquisition of the knowledge at a later time?

[marai2]

Yes. Atleast that's what's worked for me. Once I started writing compact notes to help me remember stuff, I found that I still forgot that stuff after a while but re-reading the notes was a great optimization trick in re-learning/remembering the subject matter. I don't think this would've worked for me if my notes were verbose. There is probably an art to this, some sweet spot of information density to verbiage ratio.

Do other people do this too? It would be interesting to hear how other's solve this problem?