The classification of mnemonic systems has been a passion of mine since joining the forum and after multiple revisions which have all been documented and published, I’ve finally slowed down to where I think I have a structure that makes sense and complies well with how psychology views the systems.
Here are the basics of my analysis. You have associative and conversion techniques to begin with. In associative systems, you have the peg and the story systems. There are three divisions of the associative based on subject, item, and terrain.
You can keep breaking down the types into subtypes forever so the number of possible memory techniques are limitless. What was important was to see the common ties and find the largest granular categorizations, a task which in my teaching of analysis posed the biggest problem to my students.
I will be updating my files for easier access later but that’s how I see it for now.