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I have allocated a total of 4 main locations for my loci. Each location has 20 information placement points. In total, I have 80 points.

Question 1: How can I modify this structure to make it more effective?

Question 2: What recommendations do you have to avoid losing the sequence of the information placed at these points?

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Hi Eliboyev,

  1. I would increase the amount of locations to 5…in older times 5 was equal to a hand image and would be used to demarcate the 5th room of a memory palace :slight_smile:

  2. I would also make sure to have a strong visual image along with using all of your other senses to strengthen the memorative connection.

Stefos

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  1. I have a unique character in each of my locations. That character is always there as a permanent part of the loci and its purpose is to interact with whatever image I store, which makes it easier to recall.

  2. Always make a story. When I just put an image on a loci I have a hard time recalling it and figuring out which part of the image came first, but a story is a lot easier to stick.

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Do they also represent what number station it is? Or more like they fit the part of the place like a chef in the kitchen, and don’t help with sequence recall?
I like to have my pao characters in order on some journeys to help interaction and I instantly know which number station hold what bit of info.
Other journeys are just empty or every 5th spot has a marker for the sequence #

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No, they do not, but they do serve a different purpose.

I can’t make memory palaces just to make them, so the few I have all serve a specific purpose that is usually achieved with the character that I store permanently on each loci.

My main palace is an alphabet one. I didn’t know the alphabet in order so to remedy that I created a palace and the characters each start with a letter of the alphabet in order. They have no relation to the loci itself, I just put whatever character came to mind that started with the corresponding letter.

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I have a Harry Potter list A to Z :slight_smile:

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Your language makes me suspect your loci are arranged in matrices or something. The way to not lose track of the sequence is to create loci that are linear in space. If index is important, it’s a nice idea to try to keep your areas to multiples of five or ten, just for the sake of grabbing the index more easily.