Hey guys,
I searched the web today and got frustrated.
I looked for information about what we memorize using mnmonics.
I would like to hear what you memorize. I’m not looking for stuff like speed cards etc, but things unrelated for memory championships.
Looking forward to your answers,
have a great day, Amit.
That is just what popped up into my head during my 5 seconds of thinking ^^ There is a lot and a lot more, a better question would be, “what can’t one remember with mnemonics?” 
You can find some ideas in the memory challenges section too.
What one canon memorize is exactly the opposite of what I’m looking for. I’m looking for what possible but for what useful.
And Josh, I looked over the list. My target is not what is challenging but what is informative.
I’m guessing I wasn’t clear enough in my question (haha English as a second is sometimes annoying). Thanks for both of you and if you have anything to add regarding the subject I would love to hear it.
A lot of those examples might be considered useful. It just depends on what it is that you need to know. 
The application depends very much on the job that you’re using it for. Mnemonics are an art, to be sure, but they are also a tool. If you have a goal in mind that you wish to reach, and you need to memorize some information for that purpose, then that is where mnemonics can help. Specific applications depend on your goals or what you personally would find useful.
I am a quiz bowl participant (regionals coming up really soon!), and one thing that I would find useful would be memorizing the organizational handbook that they ask a lot of the questions based on. I’m also a student in some decently high-level math and physics courses, so certain concepts from those subjects would be useful in my case. Others might find grocery lists useful to memorize, or the phone numbers of friends.
As far as informative, there is a lot on this forum regarding memorizing books and/or textbooks. If you find a resource that you find useful or informative, then that would be something worth memorizing.
It really depends on what your goals are. I’m sorry if I’ve misunderstood your question or failed to answer it. Hopefully somebody will step in and give some more useful response if that’s the case.
Good luck! 
A lot of those examples might be considered useful. It just depends on what it is that you need to know.
Seconded.
If you can figure out what you need to know, that would be the perfect starting place.
To answer your question which I hope is directed towards the arbitrary or less useful things?
That’s a tough one because thinking about it I realize how useful memorizing anything is.
Hmm, well for starters
It could also help us if you’d give an example of what you exactly want. What is useful to you?
To me, knowing all countries of the world and where on this blue marble they are, is a very useful thing to know. I watch the news, I hear a story or see a map, and I know what it is about, what else happens there and what happens in that region. People’s names are useful, as I use those a lot for my work. Same goes for my to-do list, agenda, phone numbers of a few important people, you name it.
You can memorize so many things, listing them all would cause me to die of old age before I finish typing. Basically, you can use mnemonics for everything that you want to remember.
I think it’s funny how few things we actually want to memorize once we realize that we can. I think it is the reason that most people just memorize decks of cards.
Thenks for all the answers.
I know that the trivial answer is tell us what you are intrested with, but the problem is that I can’t think of to many interesting things to memorize. It feels like a powerful tool that I don’t have use for.
I’m a computer science and phisics student, and I think that maybe using it for my studies might be helpful but I don’t have a good idea of what to use it for. Also maybe memorizing some history knowledge might be nice but I can’t think of resorces or what exactly to memorize.
My point of this thread is to hear what useful things other people are memorizing to get ideas for what I want to memorize myself.
Thenks for the help
What I have tried memorizing:
You can certainly start with all the important but trivial stuff
Collect everyone’s birthdays and phone numbers.
Your bank account numbers, student number, social insurance number… etc.
As a student you have a need to regurgitate list based crap on tests on an almost weekly basis that are not required in real life that you can take advantage of.
in my opinion /ignore below
IF you can establish the habits of loci,linking,peg,pao etc then the opportunities should appear… What are the numbers for the bus stops you use; schedules? IF things are easy to remember and you have infinite storage space then having the ability to recall all sorts of things becomes useful…
WHEN recalling things is difficult we tend to be very selective about what we choose to remember. We limit the attention we pay to something to what we assume will be important AND how much we believe we can retain. IF we believe (and can) retain more we can pay more attention to things.
You can’t actually make yourself more intelligent BUT you can use what you have more effectively IF you can establish the habits of observation and retention in real life. What should you remember?
Can you remember your day? What you said? What someone said to you? What the looked like? What they were wearing? What you did? What you need to do? When you need to do it?
Most of us habitually use tools to answer these questions for us. Again we believe we have a limited ability to retain and recall the information so we don’t exercise the skills necessary to make this easier. It is a self fulfilling prophecy of a sort. To get from A to B however takes acquiring the skills and the silly card counting, number, names, faces exercises are good at practicing the specific skills that can then be applied in real life.
Big memorization projects (the bible, quran etc) are great practice in some ways but in others are so specific that you may not develop a breadth of skills to apply to every day needs. (unless you are a religious scholar …
… /useless blather.
Thenk you Robert, your post was really interesting. I’ll think more about what you said.
Speeches to deliver to audience
To-do lists, Task in short your plan[Daily, weekly, monthly]
Figures of companies such as sales generated, losses incurred [Good for a job interview]
Impress or show off[not that I recommend that]
Get paid to teach others[ big money too]
Your school notes and come out with As like it was nothing
Principles to live by e.g ‘There are no limits to what you can achieve with your life, except the limit you accept in your mind’[Instead of looking at a paper, just stroll through your palace]
Words from foreign languages
Quotes that motivate/inspire you.
Win games like blackjack[O’Brien was actually banned from casinos,[parmanently cause of the money he made]
And so on. They are not few, anything that requires us to reread or even glance can be memorized.
And you dont have to wait for someone to do it, you can be creative e.g Memorise a damn good proposal that will just blow your fiance’s mind away[let it be from the heart though].
Good question Nick, I have been using mnemonics off and on since my teens in the late 70’s and have asked myself the same question from time to time. Regarding practical use cases, I am a software salesman, selling enterprise software solutions to regional and global enterprise companies.
My company has a broad array of products that would be difficult for any person to digest absent many years experience. From time to time, i am involved in preparation for presentations and find myself memorizing product highlights (bullet points of the value or capability, etc.), that I work into my pitch or sometimes just fill out a sidebar conversation with during a break.
More frequently, I am hosting meetings where anywhere from 3 to 30 or so people attend. In the larger meetings, I’ll bring in an expert who does most of the presenting. In either case, before the meeting starts I memorize each persons name and job title and then during the meeting I’ll peg their name with some question comment, or topic where they may have made a face to exhibit skepticism or interest. At the close of the meeting I do a brief recap during which I work in everyone’s name and the topic they responded to during the meeting. After years of doing sales meetings, I can say without doubt that the receptiveness to follow up calls is way better due to practices like this.
Over the years I’ve had several use cases specific to my life at the time. When I bought a sailboat (40 foot sloop) and was learning to sail it, I would memorize procedures for things like man overboard drills, rules of the road for navigating heavy boat traffic in channels, sail trim procedures, water depths in specific areas around source and destination marinas, etc. until it eventually became habit.
Early in my career I was a reactor plan operator on a submarine in the US navy. Every nuke sub sailor has to memorize every valve, switch, meter, gauge and thing-a-ma-bob on the boat before becoming “qualified” and being awarded a dolphin pin. There’s a lot more to it than I can describe in a sentence, but using mnemonics cut my qual time by about 2 months.
I was an electrician for a while and everything was color coded, as a degreed mechanical engineer I worked in the automotive space for a while replete with procedures, etc. I could go on and on really. You either use this stuff your you opt to take the scenic route. Now days, I can’t drive down the highway without memorizing license plates… totally useless, but I just can’t help it. Hope this helps.
Mike
I would like to be able to quickly read through a music score and memorize it, so I can just sit down and play the piece without sheet music. I’d like to be able to witness a dance and without even knowing the fundamental steps of the dance (say a complicated salsa), be able to replicate it to the best of my ability. I’d like to read a poem and be able to recite it later. Read a cooking recipe and be able to recall it at a later date. I’d also like the ability to modify it for taste and have the updates stick in my memory.
Numbers, names, dates and faces don’t interest me terribly much, except as a stepping stone to the all skills.
I think he means languages and vocabulary things of that nature. At least that what I want to know. Thanks
Do you mean languages and vocabulary?
I think mnemonics are really helpful when studying. You just need to practice the techniques and create new locis. In addition learning a number system should be useful in general
Big movie fan - so I started there. Oscar nominations and winners. Directors and actors films. I just started with learning entire favorite movies…