How to use method of loci to memorize notes

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Hi everyone i’m a new member i have read Moonwalking with Einstein and some articles on memory palace , as anyone else i tried to remeber words by order and names … and it worked so good for me but as i’m a university student * English Departement and literature * English it’s not my mother tongue language i tried to apply this to my field , i did actually good at memorizing a poeme by Edgar alan poe named Alone it’s arround 20 lines and i used my neighborhood to place images .
but my question is how i can remember notes , i brought you an example of steps of writing an essay and i hope you can guide me and tell me how you can make something like this sticks in your head forever .

Writing an essay
Features of an essay :

  • An essay is longer and tells more information than a paragraph.
  • It has an introduction , body paragraphs and a conclusion .each paragraph is indented
  • It is usually four paragraphs or more
    Introduction:
    The introduction has the introductory sentence and the thesis.
  • The introductory sentence can:
    - Give a fact, information or simply a definition.
    - Give a general statement as to what some people think or feel about something.
  • The thesis can:
    - say what you think or feel
    - Give a fact or information
    - introduce what the body paragraphs will talk about.
    Body paragraphs
  • Body paragraph talk more about the thesis.
  • Body paragraph can explain, describe, give reasons, or give examples for the thesis.
  • The first sentence is the main point and the following sentences are supporting details.
    Examples:
    Main point: if students wear uniforms. parents can save money .
    Supporting detail: They will not need to buy many different clothes for their kids.
    Transitions:
  • Going from point to another: First, second, third, first of all, in addition to that, lastly, finally.
  • Time order: Then, next, later, last week, on Sunday
  • Examples: for examples, for instance; as an example.
  • Reasons: because of, because, since, due to
  • Differences: …but, yet, however, In contrast, on the contrary.
  • Similarities: similarly, likewise.
  • Effect: thus, therefore, so consequently, as a result …
    Conclusion:
    The conclusion ends the essay.
    Concluding sentences can:
  • Restate the thesis
  • Give a final thought or feeling (but not a new idea)
  • Suggest something
  • Summarize the main points
  • Share a hope (I hope this problem will come to an end one day.)
  • Predict something (with this increase of pollution earth is going to suffer more tomorrow)
  • Transitions to close the essay: In conclusion. in short .in brief, to conclude …
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I’d create an image (or images) for each list item and then place the images in a memory palace. The images would help trigger recall of the facts in the list items. You don’t need an image for each word, but just enough image information to be able to translate the images back into the basic ideas.

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Thank you for answering
but in this case i would need a lot of images and so as a lot of places .
and i still do have more like 500 hudred pages like that to remember

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You don’t need to memorize a textbook or chapter “word for word” to write an essay summarizing the major points. If you are trying to write an essay for school, you will usually need to use the textbook as a source anyway, that you will put in your essay citations. You can refer to the textbook and other sources when writing your essay - it’s not like giving an oral presentation or speech, or taking a test, where you are expected to not need sources other than what you have already memorized.

You said that English is not your native language, and I recommend using mnemonic methods to learn more vocabulary in a language like English that you aren’t fluent in yet.

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Thank you for replying
but this was just an example for writing an essay it’s something practical and i do not need to remember anything but the point is something like that when the words are formal and not related to each other and there is no fun in them if u know what i mean .
how would you deal with something like that ?

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In general, you make a boring thing more interesting by connecting it to something already interesting. Specifically when you say ‘practical’, can you give an example?

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To create an image - it’s a nice tip.