Mnemonic CLOCK. With Number Shapes

I’ve been looking for something like this but could not find one. So I created it myself.
Since I’ve created the mnemonics for the months, I thought it might be handy to have a Mnemonic Clock.

This can perhaps be very useful for appointments, to do list etc.
It can also be used as a 24 stops memory palace too.

What would you guys use it for?

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Great idea. The inner circle has number shapes for 1-12 and the outer circle for 13-24?

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Thank you Josh.
Yes the inner is from 1-12 and outer is 13-24.

So if you had an appointment at the dentist at 2.15 pm,
you’d have a Dinosaur pushing a Wheelchair at the dentist desk or inside the treatment room.

I think it can also be used as a small journey too.

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@Rajadodve786
You can perhaps use this with the mnemonic Months, and the mnemonic weeks shapes :slight_smile:

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I like this, the reason why I can’t tell but this I know and know full well I shall try and find a use for it that’s swell (yeah I know that doesn’t scan- its late and the tricyclics are kicking in).

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Thank you. Hope you do try it, and let us know your experience with it.

I always use it, it sort of become a second nature to me.

A quick tip;
These are the Shapes that represent the digits, however, I use the real images based on these shapes.

So going back to my example for the appointment at the dentist at 2.15 pm.
I don’t see the cartoon version of the Dinosaur as on the mnemonic clock, I actually do use a real image of a Dinosaur and the wheelchair which are all saved as separate image files in a folder on my pc. So I have all 110 real images of these shapes.

As for placing these animated images into a loci, I simply always use the location of the place I have an appointment at. So in this case this would be happening at the dentist reception, or I may choose the dentist room. Works every time.

The mnemonic clock would also work with the major or dominic, mine is just an example of how I use it. I showed it to my daughter, and she memorised it within a few minutes as the shapes indicates what each digit is and I didn’t have the need to teach her any phonetics.

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Tomorrow perhaps. The drugs are kicking in and I’m away to my bed…having spent the last two nights battling the Insomnia Knight by watching “Pennyworth”…for the possible mnemonic imagery of course…one wouldn’t watch it for the story line that’s for sure. But tonight I shall, I hope, sleep the sleep of the self Righteous and The Just, of the pure of heart, for I have today finally finished my 52 PAO for cards. But wait. There’s more! I also knocked up a ‘tight’ memory palace for cards as it was taking me too long to traverse a ‘shops journey’.

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Great! That’s a lot of preparation and training your mind. Time to rest it. Seems like you’ll have a nice well-deserved sleep tonight then :slight_smile:

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Well, I could have used it to help me memorize your Shaper system. I can see many of the images from that system.

Therefore (24 - many) are missing.

Have you secretly updated the system? Is there a quid pro quo?

BTW: Many years ago, in Scots dialect, “quid pro quo” meant “£1 a jump”. I was too young to understand what that meant.

I still am.

Thanks.

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For the digits 24 I’ve used two eggs as 00 as the clock resets at 24hrs.
I usually use an “Alarm Clock” to represent the digits for 24, it is associated with a shape rather than an outlined shape of an object that I use for most of the images. Not all 100 images are based on shapes, a small percentage of them are associated because it was easier to remember. These images are all based on the images I have from 00-99 and 0-9. Some of the images may not be the same as in my original post, such 4 here on this clock is a Horse Head (or a Horse), but in the full system I use 42 as a Horse with the Head and the Neck Curve, But for people who don’t want to use the full version I thought it may be easy to use these images for the Clock only.

I have updated a few of the images but not all. I am also still thinking of updating a few more of the images as a few of them are very similar to each other, although I never had an issue memorising the images that are similar, but others may do so I am still working on some of them that may make it even easier.
I was thinking of creating a video showing how I’ve created all the image shapes and the real images based on these shapes, but never had the time, so when I do I will do one and it will be very easy to see and why it’s made the way it is.

The whole idea for me was to eliminate the phonetic part of the digits and just use the shapes of the digits along with some associated images as I find it much faster than reading the phonetic part of the digits to create an image. These are the shapes of the digits, but I don’t use the cartoon version of them, I have a folder with all the shapes, and another folder for the real images that represent each shape for each 2 digit number.

I’ve released all the images in Text format in my original post, and some of them are actually used on the Clock, Days of the week and Months of the year as in shapes.
I will fully release all of my image shapes and the real images I use for those shapes I have inside the folders I have on my PC.

However, it would be good If I had some free time to make this video because how it is used is not how it looks like on the images.

Let’s take 34 for example, 34 is a Goat, Tilt 3 and put it on top of 4, and it looks to me like a Goat or a Dear, or a Bull,. However, When I see 34 I think of Goat’s milk, and so the Milk would be poured onto the next object, and the effect of it would be that the object would be covered in Milk dripping from all angles. The reason for this is because I have assigned an Action for every single image that does something to the next object, it can be used as it is or with a Person. I call this “The Clue-Shape Method” as it already has a clue on what has happened, rather than what is happening.

The only secret I am keeping with this shaper system at the moment is a special move I am using to make the image/actions more vivid and more memorable that it is almost Not easy to forget, and it also helps to memorise even more digits at a time with no confusion. The secret move I use is probably not a good move for competing, because it takes a little more effort and time, but it is certainly very effective as I have thought this to two people who does not compete and loves it . It is difficult to explain what the move is, I may do this in another post to fully explain it.

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@Erol
I use both phonetic codes and their shapes .
First I convert numbers into words with phonetic codes and after I see in them the shape of the number.
For example
I use for seven is ‘Key’ by major system.
After this I see shape of seven in key and I got it.
I can see the picture of seven in key.

I use this for learning constant values , exact mass number, numbers and many more .

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That sounds a very effective using both phonetic and the shape. Nice idea.

I love this! Kind of tricks my mind into believing that 43 is a goat , and that 34 is the goat cheese! Ill happily accept that you keep on changing my numbers dear Erol ! Hahaha sometimes I have to stay away from your posts because of these ! But today was a moment of weakness and I’m glad it was !

Can’t wait :worried:
I’ll certainly have fun playing with them!

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Thank you! You’ve also just given me a Great idea too :slight_smile:
Within the last two months or so, I was thinking of a way to shorten the amount of images we could use to cover all 100 digits. I did a lot of experiments and managed to come up with a simple idea of “Reversing” and the results seemed that it could work, so I’ve made some notes and saved it on my pc. But was stuck at a point with a single challenge and a question of “How” it can be done. I think you may have just given me the answer I was looking for. I’ll be making some notes of what’s in my mind right now to see if this method could work well.

Hahaha, Thank you. I always love your comments. I’m glad it is adding a positive value to your memory system. You are also adding a positive value to me with your great comments. Thank you.

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The feeling is really mutual :boom:

Okay, Im not ready to share my whole number system because Im tweeking it still , but I can’t wait to share it, so I’ll tell you this : I have been using this exact reverse technique for a while now and it works, perfectly, at least for me.

I first noticed it while reviewing my numbers and falling upon one that I couldnt quite recall as fast as I could recall the reverse version of it. I didn’t really take it seriously till I started to focus on identifying which numbers reminded me of other numbers, as well as which numbers stand out the most. That’s when it came up again, so I tested it a bit and I added it to my system, along with a few other tricks used with the same intention in mind :

I know this is messy, but I don’t have enough time today :crying_cat_face: but I’m sure you’ll get it!

“.” = any card

All reversed = flipping image in my palace,sometime taking some of the palace with it!,I got it to work flawlessly for now, but will know only later if it is sufficient, after enough time and review and testing.

1111 all same…
111.
11.1
11…
.11.
1.1.
1…1

Repeat above but with all numbers
13… odds
1.3 odds Seperated
1.2 even seperated
2.4 even

Etc.

so you could play with your numbers and identify which pattern you are instantly recognizing and add that to your tricks.

examples of the gazillion possibities to try :

If 26 is a cat 2.6 is a couple, 2…6 is a LOT

By size:
If 1111 is a shuttle then 111 can be a silo and 11 can be a candle and 1 can be a needle

By theme… By epoch in your life… Etc.

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@cameri Interesting!
Not sure if my idea of reversing was perhaps a little different than yours.
The goal for me is to cover all the digits from 00-99 by using a fewer less than 100 images.

I know it sounds impossible at first, because to cover all the digits from 00-99 as a 2 digit system requires 100 images. However, I have experimented with a few different methods and to my surprise the simplest method of reversing seems to make this very possible and very easily also!
I’m the same as you on this before I release the whole thing fully, I am still tweaking it and need to work on it a little more to see what results and value it can have.

I would love to talk about your system also, it sounds so interesting, and seems like a similar idea to mine. Maybe we can do this on a new post? or even in Private Messaging until it’s all tweaked and refined and ready to be released?

If this idea works, and I do think it would work,
it would be like a “Eureka” moment in the history of memory systems.

The Big Goal I have in A Memory System is that, it is “Easy to learn, takes Less Time To Prepare, and Very Easy To Apply”

Since that was and still is my goal, I’ve managed to create the shaper system which I thought would eliminate the need of the phonetic reading for many people as well as myself. It could be learned in any language, and would be easy to apply and to recall.

My idea was Not to compete but to use a simple & effective system to help me memorise stuff faster that I needed to memorise in my daily and business life.

But since I’ve been practising it everyday I could see that I could also compete to see how well it will do, and so far I didn’t do so bad with it, I’ve managed to memorise 60 digits in 1 minute, managed to memorise 30 images within 30 - 40 seconds (22 seconds is my best so far), a deck of cards within 2 - 2.5 minutes (I don’t practice this a lot lately), So it also seems to work well with competing, even at my age at almost 50 years old!

So now my next challenge is, “How Can I Make It Even Easier” that Anyone in Any Country that can learn it very Easily and Enjoy using it because of its Simplicity!

I have been taking action on it, and saved 100s of lines of notes that may even convert into a book, and even better, perhaps into a video course that would make more sense as to how easily it can be learned and how easy it is to apply that even a 5 year old can learn starting with a one digit system that I have already prepared how.

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If using one same image base for 43 and 34, 89 and 98, 26 and 62, etc. Then we are sharing one brain ! :joy_cat:

all numbers are like that and then I go on to using rare patterns like the ones I shared with you above to further lessen the number of numbers :sunglasses:

For now, the way I distinguish between them is explained above, but you most certainly have another way and I am curiouuuuus… :wink: I am just using the first easiest idea that came to mind, which is if I need to remember 98, I place my 89 upside down in my palace… sorry I’m repeating myself again.

But there are countless ways this could be done I am sure, and that would be faster and easier than to have an extra image.

so we definitely have the same goal : have less images for the same amount of numbers.

I place them upside down in my palace, how would you distinguish the 56 and 65 ?
I’d flip your forklift upside down ! I’d like that better than muscle arm and biceps you have for 65, since I use a lot of people in my palaces already and many have big biceps haha. Maybe you make it much bigger ? HUuuuge forklift = 65! That’s one wayon my list to try, if upside down fails with my “BIG DATA” :joy: testing on the long run.

Definitely! Not now now become it’s way at the bottom of my list till next year, but next year is pretty sooooon. So I’ll send you private message when I get back into it regularly.

I admire your goals greatly, and your Enthusiasm is coooontagious !

It’s a pleasure Erol

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Yes we certainly and gladly are :slight_smile: Great!

It would take a good few lines of texts to explain this, and it would turn this post into an unrelated new post, so it would be easier to start a new post on this.
OR it may be a better idea to wait until you can PM me and we can further uncover the whole thing.

Thank you!

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Call me Mr.Thicky but I have a slight problem with it. I was just trying it out to see how it would work on various appointments I have tomorrow. Collecting my Aged Mother at 09:15 is easy, the poor old lady (sitting next to me in the car) is taking a right hook to the face whilst i’m using a garden fork as a gear stick. But how would I encode 09:43 for example? Use the image for 9 then for ‘twenty to’ then for 3?

43 is a sheep! I thought you were following :smile:! Turn counter clockwise, See the cloudy wool over the 4 legs, I actually imagine it bowing out :sheep:

Don’t ask how I keep confusing a goat and a sheep please…

There are no minutes to this yet, but you can use your number or card system when necessary I guess.

I reserve whichever comes to mind for my appointments, forcing myself to create new images instead of always reusing the same (that I do more than enough! :confounded:).