Hello friends, when I first started the memory palace, I memorized the information very easily, but after a few weeks I realized that I forgot at least half of it. When I first read the book Moonwalking with Einstein, I learned that a lawyer memorized 60 thousand articles of law. how can I memorize information like them?
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Even with a memory palace you need to review regularly (although less often than with rote learning).
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Thank you for your reply. Is there a repeat interval you recommend?
I am passing by a similar situation. Had a astounding beginning, and know sometimes I forget images I made less than minutes ago, in a ratio of 1 forgotten per 10 created. My guess is that its because I am having some hardships to sleep well, plus other sources of stress, and probably because I am using some loci that I am not that familiar with, while trying to maximize the number of loci per palace. I don’t think the images are a problem, and I am reviewing things in a okay pace, although I could review a little bit more. If you identify your problem and find solutions to it, please do write here, it can be really helpful for me and other newbies that are in the same process!
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I’ve posted my review schedule a while back in a different post here:
I hope it helps. I mostly use it to memorize laws.
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@SilvioB
Thank you very much, if I succeed, I will share it
@Vini_Villela
Hey friend Silvio shared an article here, maybe that article will be useful to you.
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@SilvioB
Is it memorizing the laws? This looks amazing.
How do you memorize very abstract words?
Oh, thank you! I already review my information almost weekly. My problem is more forgetting information right away, but I think I found the cause, and it was like I said in my previous comment: using places that I had a idea where they are, but not a very clear picture of them.
And I saw you questioning Silvio about abstract words, and I have a tip for you, since I am at the moment also memorizing law (International Law, to be precise). You can make a glossary of recurring abstract terms while you read the book for the first time, and then, afterwards, make particular characters for them. For example, I have characters for Treatises, Internal Law, Constitution, Human Rights, etc.
Ideally, you will see this terms in your first reading of the book, and then, once you have highlighted everything you found important to memorize, you make the characters and go through the book making your memorization with them. Some term or other you can do on the go, but doing this character creation beforehand can be very helpful.
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Thank you for the answer, but the method you mentioned still seems very cool to me. 
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I am happy you liked it!
The only “problem” with this method, is that when you use a specific image only in two or at most three places, you can kind of jump between them, and know exactly where they appear at the same time, and that is a very cool way to connect information. But after you start using one character a lot, you loose this “ability”. There is a chance that the images will blur themselves, but you can have at least 2 or 3 characters for the same concept, and then you only have to use them in a interweaved fashion, and not the same character for five loci in a row.
So far, I have not blurred images together or anything of the like, and I have to repeat characters A LOT. Perhaps it can make you forget images more, but if you write down your images (I make 10 images while reading, and then I go and write them by memory) and review them, there shouldn’t be a problem. Good luck!
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I usually either come up with an image that reminds me of the first few letters of the word or I break it down to parts and come up with multiple images which I put in the same location together. Usually it’s enough for me to have one image for an abstract word (the image doesn’t have to be exact as long as it still helps me remember the word).
Also, what @Vini_Villela said here is very useful:
I did the same thing for most recurring abstract legal terms.
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very clever method, thank you
@SilvioB
Hi. Do you or anybody know how to use Apple Calendar to schedule a repeating, but non-regular, event like this?
Unfortunately, I don‘t. I usually use an excel spreadsheet to calculate the dates of the reviews and then put them in my calendar manually.
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