What is your chess analysis workflow?

Hello all! This is my first post, so be gentle with me :)

I was trying to find a way to analyze my OTB games, and I find it really hard to understand every options there is. I've read quite a lot on softwares and engines, and now my question is: How do YOU analyze your games?

I downloaded the trial version of Fritz 12 for PC and played around with the free version of Aquarium+Rybka, and I can honestly say that this is confusing for a newbie. I was expecting some kind of analysis mode like chess.com offers, something that would point out blunders and such.

As of now, I am not sure these two programs offer this, of I do not let them analyze my games long enough?

Anyway, what is your take on this? Thanks very much my fellow chess players :)

http://chess4real.com/a-hardcore-guide-to-analyze-your-chess-games/

Thanks for the link, UnratedGamesOnly. That's very informative. For me, I am not a professional chess player. So I probably don't do such a thorough job in analyzing my games. I usually go through the game and note down any interesting or better moves. After that, I use the computer to check for moves that I may have missed. I then remove computer's suggested variations that I think are not important and added more comment as necessary. The software that lonecrow mentioned is capable of doing such analysis. But I think it is better to double check the result. Sometimes the computers may miss preventive moves. Although the position may actually be defendable if played according to the computer's suggestion, for human player, it may be better to opt for preventive move and avoid going into such unnecessary complication.

Thanks for your input both of you. These were really helpful. I am off to youtube to try and understand Fritz 12 better, as I find that really complicated to analyse games. Do you only check for blunders or do a deep analys?

Usually when I look at the computer analysis I ignore the 12-move deep future variations - there's no way I would ever play that well to begin with :-) Mainly I use it to find where I missed an obvious tactic ("Oh snap! I could have taken that bishop anyway because the pawn was pinned" kind of problems). Or when the computer tells me I made a bad move I try to see what it recommended instead and try to figure out why, and what the environment was, so that I can try to cram that into my memory for next time.

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 Keep this in mind with chess engines.  They analyze the current position "as is"  A move later white could have gone from a +.50 to -30  Chess engines do nothing to help you learn about positional chess, or positional concepts.  Use a chess engine sparingly, such as game analysis only after you have analyzed a game yourself. 

This is very informative. Thanks again both of you :)