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Journey Memory Tool or 'Method of Loci'

The significance of the Journey method is that it takes advantage of Location Memory in addition to visual memory and Imagination as well as Associations.
These 3 things - Imagination, Association and Location are said by Dominic O'Brien - 8 times world memory champion, to be the most important factors that helped him win!

How does one create a Journey to remember something?

1. First you need to choose a trip of some description... ideally one that YOU have made. It can be international, or local.
Something which is somewhat more specific to the things that you are tring to learn is appropriate.

An example would be that if you are trying to learn a nasty disease, you could decide that one of your childhood enemies was going to contract it IN YOUR IMAGINATION OF COURSE!!
Associate some trip that you know that he might also have made, OR DID MAKE, with the various stages of the disease... Imagine him contracting the various parts of the disease on trip.
It can be a trip you are going to make, are making or made in your childhood... you have plenty to choose from.
Try to make it relevant to the person taking the trip AND somehow to the thing you are trying to learn about... that way you will not be stuck trying to remember which trip for which thing you are trying to learn.

Depending on what you are trying to recall, find a number of landmarks along the way.

2. Next associate the items with those landmarks by making some sort of relationship between them e.g. if you are memorising a bottle of champagne and the landmark is a fence, imagine the champagne popping as it sits on the fence, hear the pop, run your finger through the stream of champagne as it runs like a river down the side of the rough fence palings.

3. Revise your journey at optimal intervals to make sure it is there when you need it.

See also Multiple objects at one location

See also Re-use of Journey locations

How does RecallPlus compliment the Journey Method

RecallPlus is easily able to describe the journey through a chain of textboxes +- images to go with it.
Each association can be tested sequentially and individually using RecallPlus tracking of associations.


Suggestion:- if you spend the time making especially strong associations using techniques such as these, it is suggested that you increase the time until RecallPlus tests you for the first time on your notes.
Select menu item - 'Options' - 'Preferences' - 'Timing' - 'Minimum interval to test' - change this from 10 to 60 or even 240 minutes!



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