When I see something on PerlMonks that I think is worth remembering, I tend to put it on my scratchpad (which is made very easy by the "add to scratchpad" link in the Personal Nodelet). I'm not sure exactly what you're suggesting, but maybe you could just use your scratchpad as a "learning space" and move links around on it as you become more comfortable with the concepts you're trying to learn?

-- Mike

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