Loci vs Linking?

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Hmm, I’m still not quite there. So would you be incorporating a story sequence at some level here with the actual watch on the trunk then melting?

Or is there some kind of rule built into your image links that define whether item X is the ‘linker’ or ‘linkee’ - poor terminology I think but I hope my drift is clear…? I understand that watch-elephant and elephant-watch are different in your example, but I’m not clear how that approach would translate to other situations.

The way I’ve always did the link method is to make things follow on in a story. Elephant → watch → butter → bus → salt → cow → gravy → pistol → flag

I’d see an elephant wearing a watch made of butter that melts onto a bus, that I pick up and use as a salt shaker on a cow, whose udders squirt gravy onto a pistol which fires a BANG flag.

Am I similarly wrong?

I think people use Link Method interchangeably. In my mind, I see your way as Story Method as it is a ‘story’. Whereas for Link, I would see it as an association between 2 items at a time.

So in your example:
Elephant, Watch: Elephant wearing a watch on its trunk
Watch, Butter: A watch eating Butter
Butter, Bus: A yellow bus is melting like a butter
Bus, Salt: A bus is filled up with salt rather than passengers
Salt, Cow: A cow appears from a pile of salt
Cow, Gravy: A cow swims in hot gravy, enjoying a bath
Gravy, Pistol: As you fire a pistol, its gravy flowing out of it
Pistol, Flag: A flag is erected from the tip of a pistol

When recalling, elephant would remind me of watch, watch reminds me of butter and so on. The advantage is that, you only focus on 2 at a time. Story method, sometimes I find, if the words are so random, can consume a bit more time to make up a story to link them together.