In Learning: Meryn Stol voted up this answer. Tiana Clark This isn't anything new, but you could always come up with strategies to grasp and record your understanding of information. 1. Find a cloud storage or personal tracking app/program to record your learning. Whether it be Google Drive, Evernote, SugarSync, Dropbox or something else is your choice. I suggested a cloud storage device because I find it more convenient to access all of your learning (in a cloud) than stacks of journals to record your progress. 2. Use strategies to exercise your grasp of the information. One strategy you could use is a mind-map program to connect ideas and form new ones. You can use this when you read a book, watch a video, or receive information in any way. Five Best Mind Mapping Tools http://www.youtube.com/watch...... The second strategy you could use is called ''Explain it to a Five-Year old''. This is an exercise to simplify difficult ideas to basic concepts for easier understanding. Pretend... - Meryn Stol