Memorizing lists

[Gnome]

Does anyone has tips or strategies regarding memorizing lists?

I find it very hard to memorize lists because I tend to forget one or two things when I am about to recall them.

[Ayesha Nicole]

These are a few resources that you may find helpful:

http://www.productivity501.com/how-to-memorize-verbatim-text/294/

http://headinside.blogspot.com/2011/07/verbatim-2-free-web-app.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2YDkfgLtPA

as well as using techinques from Memory Champions:

http://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Have-Amazing-Memory/dp/1907486976/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1358441646&sr=8-2&keywords=you+can+have+an+amazing+memory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiea5ftMZVA

http://www.peakperformancetraining.org/sitefiles/index.htm

http://joshuafoer.com/moonwalking-with-einstein/

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Gnome <jippi...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone has tips or strategies regarding memorizing lists?

I find it very hard to memorize lists because I tend to forget one or two things when I am about to recall them.

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[Gwern Branwen]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Gnome <jippi...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Brute force cloze deletions may help:
http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition#see-also

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[Tom Cato Amundsen]

I have found this method (http://www.productivity501.com/how-to-memorize-verbatim-text/294/) far better than using cloze deletion.To practice recalling, not repeating, makes sense to me. But this might be different for different people.

Tom Cato

[Scott Youngman]

There was a brief thread on this topic at this link, showing a possible cloze pattern

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mnemosyne-proj-users/BSidUHE49ZI

[Gnome]

Thanks for all the links everyone.

Verbatim text looks interesting, but I think I have to use it in mnemosyne or else I tend to get disorganized.

Perhaps there could be created an plugin for mnemosyne that automatically creates verbatim hints for close deletion cards?

[Vit]

  On Thursday, January 17, 2013 11:58:01 AM UTC-5, Ayesha Nicole wrote:

... { to memorize lists } ... you may find helpful:

... techinques from Memory Champions:

http://joshuafoer.com/moonwalking-with-einstein/

  Thank you, Ayesha, for sharing this !

   I read the book and am using the 'ridiculous interractions' technique to memorize:
1. stubborn words
2. Multiple meanings words - all 6 meanings together; like a word 'Render'.  Imagine a raindeer doing 6 things:

1. To present, hand over  ice-cream to children

2. To execute, carry out a death sentence

3. To interpret, play, perform an Opera act

4.  Citing HIS interpretation of the Odyssey.

5.  To provide help to car accident victim

6.  To declare that  HE is the King now.

   I wish more people shared their bits and pieces of useful info.

Thanks again.

Vit

PS. About Lists.  Their Loci system does work - with a bit of practice.

 

[Arno den Hartog]

Perhaps there could be created an plugin for mnemosyne that automatically creates verbatim hints for close deletion cards?

May be a bit late for you but here is a sequence of regex replacements that can get the job nice and quickly.
Someone who knows Python could easily make a script out of it.

Get a text editor with regex, drop all your text into there, and leave a blank line between each card.

Match
Replace
Explanation
\r\n
<br>
Replaces all newlines (on windows) with <br> that do not interfere with tab separated importing.
(.*?)(<br><br>|\Z)
\1\t\1\r\n
Returns newlines where blank ones used to be so that now every card is on its own line and duplicated with a tab in the middle.

(?<!<[^>]*)(?<=[^\s]{2})[^.,;?!<>\-\s](?=[^.,;?!\s]{1})(?=[^\r]\t)
@
Replaces every character with an @
Ignores everything from < until >
Ignores {2} after and {1} before the symbols inside [^...]
Ignores all symbols inside [^...]
Ignores everything not in front of a tab on that line.

Th@n ju@t im@@@t the ta@-@@@@@@@@d te@t fi@e.
Then just import the tab-separated text file.

[Peter Bienstman]

You can do cloze hints by using [cloze:hint].

Cheers,

Peter

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