I am going to take you down a short piece of memory road to tell you about how I am trying to improve my memory, what I am doing to accomplish this, how it all came about and request of you dear readers that if you find any hidden gems and obtain knowledge if you start your own journey to find out more about memory that you please share it by commenting, both with me but also with other readers of my blog.

My Background:

I have all my life struggled with memory I have always been bad at recalling anything from vacations, to what I´d done yesterday or the day before that, even events that should have been significant and special enough for it to stand clear in my mind have been vanishing it´s always been my most significant problem. I have tried to improve this all my life with different methods of remembering, mostly using external tools, and at the moment aside from my training myself in memory palace technique I use my Android´s calendar and services like Evernote to remember and Smugmug to store photos from vacations so I can recall them. My lack of memory has been my biggest disadvantage in life and now I am determined to learn all I can of the Memory Palace, I want to master my memory with this technique I have seen improvement and I know I can improve alot more if I can learn Memory Palace technique fully.

The Beginning:

I am a TV Series fanatic you properly know that already. I am a big fan of Doctor Who and also of Sherlock both these shows have Steven Moffat writing for them, he´s excellent at coming up with story archs:)
I discovered the concept of the Memory Palace which this post is about, through the Sherlock show, more precisely in Season 2´s episode: The Hounds of Baskerville.
Ofcourse the representation of the Memory Palace in Sherlock was visually improved to be impressive but it struck me that this would be cool if it was in fact a real technique to improve onces memory.
A quick Google search revealed that this was a very old but still useful memory technique that had been about for many many decades.
The website explained to me how to construct and use a memory palace.
Going with this information and testing it over a couple of occasions proved to me it´s usefulness and I have been using this primarily to remember anything important backed up by my electronic calendars and services like evernote ofcourse.

How the Memory Palace works:

First you have to construct your Memory Palace, it works best if it´s a place your intimately familiar with, I used my house which I´ve lived in for 25 years.
You have to dial up your concentration, shut anything out that could be a distraction and take as much in as you can visually, now walk a path around your house to take everything in and cover as much as you can in a walking route.
You have to do this enough that you can mentally walk through your house and picture it as perfectly as possible. Repeat this until you have a crystal clear memory tour of your house in your head that you can call up at will.
This is now your Memory Palace.
What I am doing at the moment then is walking through my memory palace and engraving numbers, words or what not into surfaces in my house, either with an imaginary spray can or with a handheld burner for engraving stuff into wood, that could be a couple of wooden table surfaces in the kitchen, dining table, spraying on the sofa, or in my room over table or storage surfaces or maybe a poster. I am reading in the book I read, that visual association to what you need to remember might be more engaging and a better way to memorize than what I do, presumably the more absurd and special you make your associations according to the book, the more energy you put into creating and thus it gets easier to recall than just text put into your memory place holders.
Next time I take a trip to my memory palace, because I have put such an amount of concentration into putting the memory into places in my memory palace I can recall them upon my next visit to the Memory Palace.
My problem now is that I can only at present store one set of information at a time in my memory palace before I have to wipe it to make room for another set of information.
Well this is troublesome what good is godlike memory if it only works one at a time?
It´s not really, the book I read informs me that you have to have one Memory Palace per set of information you want to store and thus if you can create enough memory palaces you have in theory an infinite amount of memory storage.
My trouble here is you have to know your memory palace very very well to construct and hold it. Of course I know my home in over 20 years good and well, but how many other places can I do this with?I haven´t figured this out yet, I know I have to construct more Memory Palaces but which and how I am not sure yet, but it´s definitely cracked what to do to retain multiple sets of information.
I will return with more on this once I have something that works.
Or I would be happy to hear from you my reader, if you know how to do this, can you confirm? or tip on this or something?
Anyway I am currently studying for more tricks on the memory palace.
As I said I am reading on the Memory Palace to improve my technique and to figure out how to have multiple Memory Palaces.
It´s from the book that came the tip about constructing interesting associations as opposed to concrete words or numbers into the memory holders but this I haven´t tested yet.
The book I am reading right now on the topic is called Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything I find it quite good, at this moment it hasen´t helped me tremendously but I hope it will in the end, if nothing else it´s an entertaining read.
I will return with more on this topic and possibly a review of the book once I am done. I hope you find this post interesting and useful, if you decide to pick up the book let me know what you thought of it. And I hope you will comment if you have suggestions, improvements or questions about the topic of this post.
Until next time.

Kind Regards

Nick T. Asselberghs
Admin of Asselberghs.dk

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Nick T. Asselberghs

Source (no not the Source just the term I use instead of link): Bygone Futures.com

I am going to tell you a bit about Pinboard.in.
It was created by a guy called Maciej Ceglowski as he wasen´t quite satisfied with the way Yahoo ignored Delicious after they bought it, I left around that time too for the same reasons and thus Maciej created Pinboard.in.
Pinboard uses the Delicious API and it is very simmilar to Delicious back in it´s good days.
It´s a clean design with white background it´s functional and easy to navigate and search in just like delicious was.
It has a pricetag on it indeed but not more than you would pay for a lunch meal so hurry up and get it if you need an online bookmarking site, this is I believe, your best option.
And it´s a one time fee not a recurring monthly transaction.
The reason for you to hurry is that the price will increase a little bit with each new user that joins.
I am as you may have figured out by now very enthusiastic about this site, it´s not perfect but a very very good replacement for what Delicious was originally.
I miss a couple of things though, I miss being able to group a bunch of links into groups or collections, like links for job hunting for instance, it can be ordered through tagging of course but it would have been a nice addition.
Another thing is that when you search, you search by Title and content of the Description field not in the URL, though you can set it to show the URL of all the sites you add, but I have heard from the creator on the group for Pinboard i stumbled upon in the site, that indexing and matching the URL as well is in development.
I hope to have made you curious with this blog post and I think you should head over to website to see if it is for you.
If you´d like to hear a bit about it first and get an alternate opinion you can watch this recording of a TWiT show that speaks about Pinboard and has an interview with the creator of Pinboard.in
It´s in video and is hosted on Youtube the shows hosts are the Tech Guru Leo Laporte and the host of the now “depricated” shows net@night Amber McArthur (the show still lives but under the name the Social Hour)

Enjoy Pinboard.in

Kind Regards

Nick Asselberghs
Admin of Asselberghs.dk

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Nick T. Asselberghs
Admin of Asselberghs.dk

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Nick Asselberghs
Admin of Asselberghs.dk

Source: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B006XY68Y4?tag=adapas02-20

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Nick Asselberghs
Admin of Asselberghs.dk