@cauli Very cool to read what you’re doing and how you’re going about it.
I really like this.
Keeping similar organization, but distinct and logically separated.
It’s different, but reminds me of techniques Dr Lynne Kelly [@LynneKelly] wrote about in her books (which have inspired me for years).
It’s been a bit since I did a read-through of my copy of Memory Craft, but to learn words with their correct genders I recall her even going to two different grocery stores. One was assigned for feminine gendered groceries/words, one store for masculine.
She also made what she termed “raspcallions,” which are little dolls (each distinct, one feminine and the other masculine) and would speak to them practicing the language, playing and conversing with them, and incorporating words based on what would and wouldn’t be appropriate (gendered terminology-wise).
“Memory Craft” is a gem of a book in terms of quantity and quality of both ideas and research.
Life changing knowledge, imo.
—well, it changed my life, so if it doesn’t change yours just flip the book over so that it’s right-side up and that should do it.
I’m interested to see how you continue with this effort @cauli
I like that you’re keeping it fun and interesting to yourself. I do the same thing. Keeping it always playful. If not, I’ll stop bothering with it.
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Also, the “memorizing a dictionary” theme has a big part to play in my own mnemonic adventures this year.
You might dig this interview that Dr. Anthony Metivier [@metivier] did this past November with Australian Memory Champ, Anastasia Woolmer on the somewhat related topic of… how she was going about memorizing an entire dictionary. 
I listened to it on a long drive heading east out of Abilene, Texas one quiet December evening.
—A 70 minute drive where the stars are pretty much the only street lights (unless it’s cloudy, god help ya).
At the end of the drive, inspired and feeling a strong sense of “Well I don’t see why the hell I can’t do something like that!”, I decided I’d go ahead and proceed with the often-advised-against idea of memorizing the Python Programming Documentation.
7-ish weeks later I hopped on the forum to share my experience and see if anyone else had dangerously taken fate into their own hands and walked a path eschewed by every professional programmer ever asked and simultaneously never actually attempted (google it). To see if anyone else had attempted a feat so useless, wasteful and most-likely “not worth the energy”.
Hoping that—maybe—oh—maybe—someone else had. And maybe we could chat about it and swap ideas?
Here’s the link so you can see how pointless I found memorizing all that documentation and how unhappy I was to waste so much time and energy doing it: I memorized huge chunks of Python’s documentation
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Actually I enjoyed it and think it's pretty cool to have this stuff just sitting in my noggin to think about and play around with on those long dark drives east out of Abilene. 10/10 would do again. It's all still there, 8 months later. Imagine that.
On the Memorizing a Dictionary interview:
One tidbit that sticks in my head from Anastasia Woolmer’s interview with Metivier was how simple and easy she explained it was to memorize the page numbers. Like “Oh, yeah, it’s just a number. That’s basically one little image every so many dozens of definitions. I can just do that last after everything else is down pat.” (that’s a terrible paraphrase, but it’s my terrible paraphrase).
Apologies for the long-windedness. I probably enjoyed myself too much writing this. But I also enjoyed reading your process and look forward to seeing how things develop for you, and what other ideas you come up with for your process. I dig what you’re working on. Exciting to read about.
Regards,
Beau