i’m not sure if this is applicable to the topics you’re learningtrying to recall but i try to make associations to things that i am interested in which does lead to really odd segues in thought but does the trick   i also doodle a lot of concepts that make sense to me but probably not to others i can’t remember what member protein fits x receptor on the cell but i can remember “yellow triangle with handle bar mustache goes to red brick house with roses out front”