On how to organize your mnemonics and make reviewing easier

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As I have written here previously, I’ve recently upgraded my memory skills at the end of 2025, and I now have a very significant ability to memorize stuff fast, in the ballpark of 25 words every 2 minutes (this isn’t equivalent to memorizing a deck of cards, because I consider even the preparation of virtual memory palaces into this number, and when I memorize a deck of cards, I use pre-planned memory palaces and could do it in a minute).

Once that happened, I started to memorize loads of information. This is all good and amazing, but i’d quickly run into a problem: organizing information and facilitating recall.

So, what do I mean by this? What I mean is that when you memorize a lot of information, and you don’t write down your mnemonics, you’ll struggle to review in a few key ways: small pieces of infomation might go missing and you may feel little motivation to review when the time comes, which makes the information loss problem worse.

Besides all that, when you get to thousands of pieces of information, you really want to have it organized and layed out somewhere to make sure you always have access to your mnemonics.

Alright, so far nothing new under the sun, writting down your mnemonics is very much worth it. What else do I have to add here?

Well, a couple important strategies. Firstly, there is no reason to review your palaces at maximum concentration and unaided. Not that you need aid, but you want to make reviewing as fast and as easy as possible.

Here’s what I do: I made a python program to encode information for me. I input the text in a certain format, and the program outputs all the information encoded. This means I don’t have to write anything down, I just copy and paste and don’t have to worry about it.

I also do something else, which is my favorite thing right now: I use an excel extension to read all my mnemonics for me in a certain rhythm. This way, I put my phone next to my bed, close my eyes, relax and review without having to concentrate too much. It feels very much like meditation.

These two things have been a game changer for me. But this post is supposed to be a warning in a way. If you’re going to start memorizing a lot of information, make sure you have you menmonics written down somewhere. Believe me, you’ll thank yourself later.

Anyway, it’s been a while since I wrote anything in here. Glad to be back.

Love is all you need!

Matheus Venicio.

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Hello!
When you say writing down the mnemonics is it in the sense of writing the descriptions of the images you made?

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Yeah, exactly! By mnemonics I mean the images I used to encode the information. So if you use an image of a moon to memorize monica, then you should write down something like “monica - moon”

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I don’t understand this. Can you describe it better/with more detail?

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For example, I’ll writte down what I need to memorize. Let’s say I want to memorize the word “monica”. I copy the word from whatever source I have, then I paste it inside the python program and press the button to make the encodings. The program has my alphabet system hardcoded inside, so when it sees monica, it’ll immediatly translate it into my mnemonic images for that word.

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Interesting methods.

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I wouldn’t even review without Anki.

It’s undefeated for testing and reviewing your knowledge in my opinion.

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All that anki does for me is randomize the cards and remind me of spaced repetition.

I like anki too, but I often feel unmotivated to use it because of how cluttered the interface looks when you have many decks

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Since you mentioned anki is quite cluttered what is your usual way you practice spaced repetition.

I have memorised entire books using memory palace but not able to practice spaced repetition properly as the info I have memorised are huge so not able to give time properly any tips for that

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Can you give me copy of that program I will manually feed my mnomics

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You can simplify. Not repeating everything. that’s impossible.