More information per image

General Memory Chat
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This is a method that I am recently using where instead of creating multiple images I am trying to put more data in the image itself by various means.

This works good when memorising an unordered list of things.

I use 4 major categories.

  1. Shape of the image
  2. Colour of the image
  3. action performed by the image
  4. Sound of the image or that action performed

Let me explain, how I use this for organic Chem.

1.shape
In my system every
Alkane has a spherical shape
Alkene has a cylindrical shape
Alkyne has a cubic or cuboid shape.

Every cylindrical thing like a can or bottle is an alkene now.

2.colour
I use it for the mechanism
White colour is for SN1 mechanism
Black for SN2
Red for E1 and so on.

A red can (coca cola?) Indicates that the alkene is going elimination unimolecular I.e. E1 mechanism.

3.Action
A kettle having alcohol spills over a Japanese lady’s
Kimono

 KMnO4(kimono) converts ketone(kettle) to alcohol

4.Sound
Seeing this the japanese lady screams

  "Oh! No!" that is 2 words which indicates it was a 
    secondary alcohol.

In this manner I put more data per image and get more information from lesser no. of total images.

Has anyone else ever tried this before?
Are there any more ways to put more data in an image?

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PAO: Is it okay that the action is not being performed on the object?
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I find these really really great ! Keep em coming!!!

I’m a maybe a bit of jealous that you can use sound​:open_mouth:

even if I am still too horrible with imagining colours, since I know a Coca-Cola can is red, I don’t even need to see the colour.

Material : you can transform your object in wood or metal, paper, etc. or fur or bigger or smaller or alive or something alive not alive. Reverse, explode, make thin… Take only things from a certain Epoch like a toy from childhood…, stuff from high school or stuff you relate old people too, mid-life, baby stuff :baby::baby_bottle: , or images remembered from one’s life’s greatest souvenir. Make itpeople or things of different culture, make the object or image theme based… give image four legs, 2 legs, ten arms, two, any other body traits, a beard to your Japanese lady… :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

we could make a whole thread about this and I’m sure we could gather hundreds of these different ways to alter/distinguish an image for adding extra info.

I hope to see more great examples like this one, what I would call Applied learning for memory techniques.

Thanks

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it’s a wonderful way to remember :cat:

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I know this is a pretty old thread, but it got bumped and I thought it was pretty cool. I looked into something like this a while back when I was first learning to memorize the binary red-black order of a deck of cards. I thought about using a bunch of categories to compress multiple values. It was sort of a modified PAO approach that added a bunch of other elements.

Location
Person
Emotion
Song
Catchphrase
Food
Action
Texture
Shape
Color
Object

It was pretty unwieldy to implement so I never did much with it in that context, but in the way you describe for something that has multiple attributes or nested characteristics it might work.

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If I understand correctly, this method is based on a correspondence between a property of an object and a more or less arbitrary notion (the white color for SN1 reactions, but for another person maybe it will be another color). So, as Cameri said, we can really create a kind of PAO for many words by going so far as to use the nature of the thing (wood, metal), if it is on fire or not, if it has a steampunk or cyberpunk aspect etc…
So my question is do you have a personal dictionary with a list of images and associated concepts ? Do you keep track of associations you create ?

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If I understand correctly what the person above me understands correctly, can you perhaps use this [or similar to this] system, where per each field you study [maths, chemistry, physics, etc], you assign an easy-to-remember item [sound, object, person, etc] to a word/concept [abstract one?] and can easily reuse [reference it?] it while studying whatever field you’re studying?

You could also have an MP where you store that information - the link between the prop you’re using and its actual meaning, so you can reference it if you forget it.