How much of a brain break are you giving yourself?

If you’re spending a large amount of time on learning each day, you might look into structuring your learning so you’re doing it in small segments each day. Learn for 30 minutes, then go do something mindless for an hour.

Since short term memory is largely written to long term memory while you sleep, maybe try working on it an hour or so before you go to sleep.

Also, how are you learning? Are you doing exercises as you learn each concept, or are you reading a bunch then trying to throw everything together after?

For me, the only way I retain information like that is to actually work with the knowledge. Taking notes, like many have suggested, doesn’t work for me. I learn best when I have a task I want to accomplish, and I have to go research what I need to complete it.

Guided learning (school, training courses, books) really doesn’t transfer to long term knowledge for me, so I structure my learning differently. I feel like this is a pretty common thing with ADHD.

i write millions of notes for everything.

to that i add a similar amount of reminders.

not just for learning etc.

also for things like the first todos of the next day: shower, prepare food, pack this, …

for remembering for short-medium timeranges very simple notes suffice.

i know lots of stuff. i just can’t access it without a trigger.

Unsure if it’d be your case, but maybe you’re too tired? Tiredness can mess memory afaik. Or maybe you’re not using the ideal learning methods? In my case for language learning, for example, repetition is a guaranteed way for me to lose focus, instead with cinversations being ideal for learning.

Take notes. It’s the only way I’m able to hang onto specific information and concepts ( ie code syntax, structures, processes ) in any reliable way. Your own notes are infinitely more valuable than any textbook(or blog or forum or whatever). Your own notes will be in your thought patterns, meaning when you read them later the information is ‘ready-to-eat’. Textbooks written by someone else provide information which first needs to be wrestled into shape before you can use it.

I have a self-hosted nextcloud server. I spent weeks learning how to set up apache, SSL certificiates etc. Then when 3 months later something broke, I had to learn it again from scratch - which led to me writing ‘guides’ for myself for all the stages of the process so the next failure would be easier to recover.

If it’s worth remembering, it’s worth writing down.

All the best! New languages (human or machine) are always difficult, but incredibly rewarding.