# How to implement a mental priority queue?

**URL:** https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/how-to-implement-a-mental-priority-queue/73563
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**Created:** [May 16, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/how-to-implement-a-mental-priority-queue/73563 "2022-05-16T17:53:39Z")
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#### Post date: [May 21, 2022, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/how-to-implement-a-mental-priority-queue/73563/10 "2022-05-21T07:24:04Z")

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This isn’t my case, but it is interesting to think about.

If your conditions are all location-based, you could just construct a memory palace from the actual locations where you’d do the tasks, most likely your home or work.

I asked my wife how she thinks her brain handles this problem (she’s great with this stuff). She basically said that she maintains a traversal path over locations where she has tasks. If a task needs to be re-prioritized, she just modifies the traversal path. So, it’s kind of the _opposite_ of what we normally do with memory palaces, where we typically fix a traversal path and modify items associated with locus objects on the path.

But with the other conditions you list, yeah, they seem harder. I think this is related to the problem of multi-columnar data which I posted on in [Historical Timeline](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/historical-timeline-memory-my-proposed-system/73410).

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