Here is a first look at the memory software that we’ve been working on. The software is designed and built by a new team: Issa, Josh (me), Nelson Dellis, and Simon Orton (4x national memory champions and creators of the Extreme Memory Tournament).
We’ve launched a Kickstarter campaign to help us finish it more quickly, allow pre-orders, and get feedback when we enter beta. Click any of the images below to learn more about the Kickstarter.
We’ve spent years discussing memory techniques here in the forum – now we’re making everything interactive. You will be able to create your memory systems, manage your memory journeys, and review your knowledge with spaced repetition. You’ll also be able to compete against other members in real-time memory games, both with random data and real facts.
If you have questions, you can ask them here in this thread or send any of us a message. We hope that you like it and will share it with your friends so that we can launch it more quickly!
Saw this in my email this morning. Will have to wait till I find gainful employment but you are definitely on my list. It’s hard to find either the time or money for ventures like this. Are you intending to provide a subscription based service like memocamp, a free service, a mix of both? Any chance of sneaking the mental calculation bits in or will we watch from the bleachers?
I’d definitely like to have some mental calculation there, especially if we can fund it past the minimum goal. I think that we have similar interests (studying programming and math), so I think that you will like it.
The core software will be subscription based (this is full-time work for a small team of people), but the forum and wiki will still be free. Some of the new features will be free as well. The price is about the cost of buying one of us a coffee or lunch once per month in return for our work.
If anyone isn’t ready to contribute to the campaign yet, it would still help us reach our goal just to share the link (artofmemory.com/kickstarter) with as many people as possible.
In addition to showing my support I’d probably benefit from using the software, and am thus contributing to the campaign with a pledge. Hopefully you’ll reach at least the minimum level
What do you think about including Virtual Reality Devices (such as Occulus Rift) to create mind palaces ? I think it would be great, and using that technology we could create unlimited mind palaces.
VR will surely be involved at some point, but probably not in the first iteration. You will be able to create and manage all of your mind palaces with the first version of the software without needing any extra hardware.
Yes, definitely. The goal of the Kickstarter is to raise funds to help speed up the development. We’re almost at 20% of the funding goal with three weeks to go.
Even if people reading this aren’t able to back the campaign at the moment, sharing a link to artofmemory.com/kickstarter with your friends, school, coworkers, and on social media can help us reach the goal and get the software to everyone faster!
I´m interested in the software , mainly for one reason. I´m so lazy to create palaces, journeys, etc, i trully believe in these techniques but the only turn off is creating the locis from the “real world” , for example i live in small apartment, and therefore it lacks loci images, also i don´t like to go out and take a ride in my neighborhood to have more locis in my “vault”.
If i want to memorize a list of things for one subject, one small memory palace such as my apartment will be fine, but i want to memorize different sort of things, and each subject has many many things to memorize (for example memorizing CCNP and CCIE subjects like BGP and MPLS, other palace for financial data and so on)
I don´t want to have false expectations about the software you are programming, but if with that software i would create locis from a a huge gallery (or upload my own images), i think it would help a lot.
The software will allow you to upload your memory journey images, create locations, and even add your mnemonic images (with the facts that they represent) to the journeys. We will have a gallery of pre-made journeys that you can use. Also, users will be able to share their journeys with other users, so we hope to have a large library of pre-made locations to choose from.
You could think of it as “technologically assisted memory journey creation” so that people can create and review their knowledge more quickly than doing the entire process mentally, with spreadsheets, or on paper.
If you back the level called “Early Watson” for USD $50, you now get two years of the Art of Memory software plus the XMT training site, so it’s a great deal – about $2.09 per month, which is about the price of a cup of coffee.
There are only 21 rewards left at $50 and then the “Watson” level goes up to $60. artofmemory.com/kickstarter
