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Hi everyone!
What technique would you rather recommend for verbatim memorization?

Assuming I have a 100% of time dedicated for studying, I plan to (and maybe can only) use 20% of it for actual studying. The memory arts are undoubtedly great, but I haven’t learnt about a verbatim technique that scales well (even to about 2k pages of reasonably flowing prose)

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Hey all, I could use some advice.

I’m memorizing the main ideas from influential philosophers, working my way through history. To keep ghosting down, I make sure every locus is unique, which means I never use the same locus for two things. That eats through palaces fast, and I’m running out. My whole town is used up. Every building is a palace, every road is a palace, ...

On the weekend and earlier today I read about some card systems that I havent read about on this forum. These are systems that are bigger than 1 card, but not as big as 2 card.

They provide 13 PAO scenes or 35 images - as compared with the 26 images of a 2 card system.

System 1: The Federico Soldati system - this codes 4 cards into 3 images, using PAO. This is d...

The Vision

From forgetting last night’s dinner, to remembering today’s dinner forevermore…

The Intro

My ability to remember things in my day-to-day life...

I’ve been using memory palaces for years, mostly for studying books and whatever else catches my interest.

I’ve noticed a pattern in what makes a palace stick long-term.

I’m calling it The Mnemic Law. I considered Beau’s Mnemic Law, but that seemed a little too humble.

The Mnemic Law

To consolidate a mne...