How are you thinking of creating your peg list? A Major System can also be a peg list. The wiki has a page with some examples of various types of peg lists that are based on number systems and alphabets.
If you haven’t watched it yet, there is a video on how to memorize numbers that explains the difference between a few concepts:
Image Generation Systems
These systems turn numbers into pictures.
- Major System
- Dominic System
- Ben System
- there are also other variations like Erol’s Shaper System
Image Placement Systems
These combine numbers in various ways before the images are placed in locations or on pegs.
- 1-, 2-, or 3- digit systems
- person-action systems
- person-action-object systems
- there are also some other variations on these ideas
Ordering Systems
I don’t think this is mentioned in the video, but memory journeys could be compared to peg lists. They are both ways of keeping mnemonic images in order.
- memory journey – this technique keeps images in order by placing them along a spatial journey
- peg list – this technique keeps images in order by linking them to ordered “peg” images.
So a Major System can also be a peg list, because a Major System is a set of images that can be recalled in order. If you link the images to be memorized to your Major System, then you can mentally recall your Major System in order to recall the linked images.
Peg lists aren’t as popular here in the forum as memory journeys, but I really like them. 