Overall Strategy and Massive Confusion

[MikeRMcCartney]

I'm still in the process of playing my very first game. I'm at turn 130, with a small empire (51 planets), and only a couple of dozen ships. My problem is that, even though my empire is small, I have a hard time maintaining my overall strategy, ship movement, troop movement, population movement, and so on. I only get to play about 3 or 4 times a week, and when I get back to play, I can't remember what I had my fleets doing. What do you guys do to maintain your strategy? I read about some of you playing multiple games at one time, you must have some trick to keeping it all straight. Thanks for any help.