Methods and apparatuses to record and review a navigation process of image guided surgery. One embodiment includes recording a sequence of positional data to represent a position or position and orientation of a navigation instrument relative to a patient during a surgical navigation process. Another embodiment includes: tracking positions and orientations of a probe during a surgical navigation process; and recording the positions and orientations of the probe, the recording of the positions and orientations to be used to subsequently generate images based on preoperative images of a patient. A further embodiment includes: reading a recorded sequence of locations of a navigational instrument; reading recorded video; generating a sequence of views of three dimensional image data based on the recorded sequence of locations; and combining the sequence of views with corresponding frames of the recorded video.