Category Archives: Memory

Weeknote for 5/5/2024

Posted on May 20, 2024 by Andy

Learning 😎 I continued taking memory palace photos, choosing number names, and exploring resources for creating more mnemonic tools. I picked up a pair of symbolism dictionaries by Steven Olderr to help me think about visualizing abstract concepts. For ideas … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 4/28/2024

Posted on May 13, 2024 by Andy

Still behind, but I’m working on it! Learning 🤔 I started collecting memory palaces and names for representing numbers and continued exploring other mnemonic ideas. For palaces I started with my childhood home, which took me about an hour to … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 4/21/2024

Posted on May 8, 2024 by Andy

This entry is a little late! But I’m picking up where I left off, and I aim to catch up on posts this week. Travel 😩 Sunday, the day after the wedding, I tried out my new instructions to myself … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 4/14/2024

Posted on April 28, 2024 by Andy

Learning 🙂 I decided to start my memory training by learning a Person-Action-Object list for two-digit numbers based on the Dominic System. This is a popular way of memorizing numbers that balances speed of memorizing a number against the speed … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 4/7/2024

Posted on April 8, 2024 by Andy

Learning 😌 I started indexing the lists of mnemonic substitutes in my new sources. I worked from Mnemonic Techniques by Hoff and Remember It! by Dellis. Early on I tried entering the lists themselves, but that took too much time … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/31/2024

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Andy

Learning 🙂 Douglas Hoff recommends Nelson Dellis’s Remember It! as a first book on memory techniques, and I’d say it’s a good choice. My top choice is still Kenneth Higbee’s Your Memory: How It Works and How to Improve It. … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/24/2024

Posted on March 30, 2024 by Andy

Learning 😎 Memory Techniques by Douglas Hoff is the book I’ll work through first when I’m designing my own system. I might not recommend it as a first book on memorizing, but it’s an intensive survey of the many techniques … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/10/2024

Posted on March 10, 2024 by Andy

Health 😌 My ulcerative colitis medicine arrived, and I started taking it again. There are a few loose ends to the insurance situation, but for now the crisis has passed, though I’m still processing the implications. In a couple of … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/20/2022

Posted on February 20, 2022 by Andy

Productivity 🙂 I’m creating mnemonics for Emacs commands. I’m thinking it’ll help me learn the many, many arbitrary-seeming commands in this software. The keystroke sequences have fairly regular structures, so it shouldn’t be too hard to search and replace the … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 9/20/2020

Posted on September 20, 2020 by Andy

Memory 😐 I finally carved out some time to set up the new version of my dictionary-making app. This week I’ll continue the setup and start working with my language sources. AI 🙂 Kai-Fu Lee‘s AI Superpowers is about being … Continue reading →