What are your hints for analysing your games?

Not that I ask instead of researching, I read a bit first (e.g. on chess com) but still feel like advices and discussions would be useful. So, do you have any hints on that? E.g. you take notes with your mistakes categorized? You count which ones you make most often to focus on improving them first?...

#1
If you lost a game, then you made at least one mistake. Find it. How much time did you spend on this mistake? How much time did you have available? What candidate moves did you consider? Why did you select the mistake?

Thanks and then how do you deal with conclusions drawn, to minimize the risk you make same kind of mistakes in the future? You just hope it will stay in your head or do you have some systematic approach?

#3
When you think why you selected the mistake, you find out what was wrong with your thinking.

The memory of the loss also helps it stay in your head. That is why it is best to analyse a lost game right after you lost, when the imprint is still fresh.

That is also why analysing lost games is so much more important than analysing won games. In a won game you probably also made mistakes, but these will not stay in your head. All is well that ends well. You will remember the win and forget the mistake.

You may also use studies, and do your post-analysis there (same tools as in post-game). It allows you to group your games as you wish. might even be thematic based on your type of mistakes. you can link or copy same chapters from one study to another if there are theme overlaps or contrasting aspect you want to remember, and come back to after a while to see if your understanding has changed. And all of the above.

Sometimes the computer offers solutions that seem overwhelming to me due to my weak abilities, and then I do not see the benefit of such advice. And sometimes the advice of the computer coincides with my feelings and thoughts during the game, then I get satisfaction and benefit from the computer's help in analyzing the game.

I always wrote out my analysis just like it was some game in a book.

@Maciej_J
After your game ends, analyse it immediately since the thoughts of the game still goes on in the mind.

"One mistake is enough to lose a game"

So it means that you/your opponent made at least 1 mistake. Find all mistakes that occurred. Then see how did these moves changed the course of the game. Think of all sensible moves that could have been played. Out of these, check which of these moves could have given an advantage or made the position better. Similarly, do the same for the reply from your opponent/you.

"The side that makes one less mistake, wins the match"

If you win, then don't ignore because it means that your opponent made at least 1 mistake more than you. Analyse the game by finding all of your mistakes and understand them to avoid in future games.

"If you want to win the game, you teach. If you lose the game, you learn"

If you lose, then analyse it thoroughly and pay more attention to it by learning from your mistakes.

"If you want to win the game, you teach. If you lose the game, you learn"

I don't know abut the "want", but I like the suggestion of a dialogue through game experiments. Or call it experience, if not liking the idea that a game might be about testing your view of how good is a move given a position, by trial and error (including testing what others may have shared with you but you are not sure what it might mean in all generality).

However attention has to be steady for the imprint. Post-game analysis will ensure to level the in-game fluctuations via second pass, narrating the chess story with verbal language (your own, or that already learned from others), or a fast forward movie to see different story levels in relation to all you might have learned via games or any other source of chess information. Allowing you to make your own connections to your experience.

Various speeds may force you to look at different chess time scales. Perhaps become more aware of plans layered on top of the succession of tactics (hindsight is something, not necessarily covering all the hypotheses for in-game thinking, but at least some tentative glue, it might be too late for that game, but it might help another one later...). I should do that myself, more often. trying to convince myself here.

Thank you all, telling a story in one's words or as if it was a book paragraph looks interesting. I think it might uncover motivations for certain moves as well as better stay in memory and help to categorize the mistakes.