I am breaking my head over the following problem. How can one use a memory palace multiple times for different lists or tasks? How to avoid interference? How to avoid building new or more complicated palaces because that takes a lot of effort and time and the goal of mnemonics is precisely to avoid this.
Temporary lists and tasks? Some people talk about actively erasing old images, Alex Mullen says he leaves older palaces dormant so the images can naturally fade, then just overwrites the loci with new information. I don’t remember how long he leaves them, something like 3 weeks.
You might already have a bunch of palaces in your head just waiting to be plotted out and used. Have you brainstormed about all the places you’ve been?
How are you using your palaces? For instance, if you’re memorizing a paragraph verbatim, are you using one station per word? (From what I’ve read some people actually do that, so pardon me if the question sounds a bit odd).
Personally I like Anthony Metivier’s idea of using columns… or “stacking” (effectively tripling) the same station, by putting one on top of the other.
His way is done as the original memorization - just, station 1: info, stack, info, stack, info, NEXT station (and start again, station 2: info, stack, info, stack, info, NEXT…
But there’s no reason you cannot take a station which is a chair or a table and set a new memory AT the chair or table, but start by using the space on the floor right in front of that chair or table. Then for a “new” palace beyond that, take advantage of the space ABOVE the chair or table… maybe hovering a few feet over it in the air. That would definitely work. AND I suspect that it would have two added benefits, one of which would be the ability to cross-link and simultaneously go over 3 (or even 4 if you use something hanging from the ceiling) pieces of information at once if you so desired, or just the particular one you’re wanting to create…, the other benefit would be that since you already use that loci for one memory, there might be a loose connection of familiarity of the station attached to the first thing memorized there, so that you’d be able to jog your recall better.