With my work I receive many reports and updates each day and much of the information needs to be stored for long term. I am often required to recall the information in meetings. To deal with this I create keyword lists from my reports and memorise these using the link method.
This works ok but the Loci method is much more powerful for me. My powers of recall are far better using it. Unfortunately I am challeneged with creating a new journey or palace for each report.
I have read entries in this forum on using the same journies more than once. I have been attempting to do this but am having some problems with conflicting recall of items.
Any advice on using the same journies for new information without forgetting the old?
Do you need to retain a finite number of reports in memory (say a week) or is it a constantly growing beast?
Either way, I would personally be tempted to create more journies as per my Massive Memory Palace posts.
With the caveat below, I have used the same journey multiple times by using attributes such as weather - snow, rain and floods, darkness, sun baked etc.
Others have suggested ‘fur’ and other material attributes.
Or colour. (Didn’t work that well for me, but that was some years ago.)
Or perhaps have an additional ‘anchor’ image for each journey e.g. Every locus has a dragon involved or a tree or something else that is memorable in context.
Maybe you could combine for better recall e.g. have a dragon AND a red landscape.
On the whole I have found that interference occurs when using the same journey for long term memorisation, especially if it is not something you are referring to or using a lot, but maybe I just didn’t do a good enough job when setting up the differences.
Have a go and let us know how you get on!
Gavino
Edit: I forgot to mention one key point, which is that I have found that using the same journey multiple times works better for recalling completely different types of information in each journey. Otherwise you multiply the interference possibilities.