Hello,
I am returning to memorization techniques after 2 years.
My biggest frustration back then was that I was not able to find the discipline to do my memory palace reviews properly.
Now I heard this can be done with a spaced repetition system like Anki.
So I started memorizing again thanks to Anki.
Yesterdatn I was really inspired by this blog article from Alex Mullen.
On each card, at the front, there is a question on the material being learnt.
And then on the back, there is the answer, and also the memory palace used to memorize the answer.
So he uses a small memory palace for each card.
And he makes this memory palace on the spot (it is not a pre-built memory palace).
I really like this approach and wanted to know if you guys use a similar approach (preferably for a long time) so that I can learn the best practices.
Many thanks in advance !
Alexandre
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Now, I do not do this for a long time, just starting out, will respond maybe later when this stands the test of time…, but my approach with anki and memory techniques so far is this:
Reusable memory palaces:
- Front is the name of the palace and the number of loci.
- When reviewing such a card, I walk through the whole palace and the number of loci I visit is the way I check if had visited them all.
- Back has the whole palace just as a list of loci for checking. - I walk it again reading the loci - if I missed sth it will hit me - I adjust next review time accordingly using the appropriate answer button.
I believe this should be enough to keep the palaces working and alive.
Long term storage of data
Using a dedicated memory palace
Same way as reusable memory palaces, but the back card can include the data with the palace.
Using link method
For not too complex, not too large data I rather create an ad hoc short story using the Link Method. Thus I avoid having to build a memory palace, which in itself I am not too fast at.
So The Front of the card would have the question. The question should in itself lead to the beginning of the story in the link method. I walk the story and try to retrieve everything. Then I can check with the back card which will show the data. For now I am experiment with not writing the story, just the data - Anki should take care of review scheduling in such a way, that I will be able to always remember the story, cause I repeat it before I forget. In case I forget the story, I hope that after reading the data I am able to retrace back what mnemos/story points I used to refer to the data being stored.