I felt like I was forgetting 90% of the stuff I read in man pages too and I probably did. But reading them once showed me some of the possibilities those nifty little tools have. Sometimes when I approach a problem I remember one or two things I didn't know before. Even though I don't remember them exactly, I still know about their existence and can easily look them up again.
When I have some spare time on my hands I like to skim manuals for those features. Vim for example, I have been learning continuously ever since I first used it and I dare to say that by now, I know a bit about it. However, I never sat down trying to memorize everything but kept skimming the help every now and then and when I found something cool I just tried to start using it. Some things I've forgot, others stuck.
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I felt like I was forgetting 90% of the stuff I read in man pages too and I probably did. But reading them once showed me some of the possibilities those nifty little tools have. Sometimes when I approach a problem I remember one or two things I didn't know before. Even though I don't remember them exactly, I still know about their existence and can easily look them up again.
When I have some spare time on my hands I like to skim manuals for those features. Vim for example, I have been learning continuously ever since I first used it and I dare to say that by now, I know a bit about it. However, I never sat down trying to memorize everything but kept skimming the help every now and then and when I found something cool I just tried to start using it. Some things I've forgot, others stuck.
I guess that's just the way I learn.