[surfsvammel]

I’ve learned tens of thousands of foreign language words using Anki and have always find that having pictures on the cards help me remember the words.

I currently have a (foolish?) project. I’m trying to memorize the 750 cards of a quiz game that we play in the family. All questions are answered by a year. So for example: “What year did Coca Cola Light come out?”.

I have been using Midjourney to generate images for those cards which makes it so much eaaier to recall.

I have a system. I have a person representing each century; Einstein is 1900-2000 and for example Mari-Antoinette is 1700-1800. Then items represent the decade; a sixties car represent the sixties, jacket with shoulder pads the eighties and so on.

I do something similar for the last digit.

Then I have Midjourney generate such pictures, in a comic book style, and I save the most fun or absurd one and use that on the back side of the Anki card.

The image is often easier to recall than the year by itself

[vunderba]

Three things:

1. Look up PAO - it's a tangentially related mnemonic system that uses images.

2. Test your recall periodically with/without the images otherwise you may find that the true nature of recall (aka in the wild) without said images is adversely affected.

3. Is it Trivial Pursuit? A friend of mine deliberately memorized all the cards of the original Genus edition.

[surfsvammel]

It’s not TP, it’s a Swedish game called När då då.

The image is on the back of the card, with the answer. So trying to recall the year, I don’t get to see the picture. But, the picture is the first thing that comes to mind when I get the question and the from it I get the year.

[petesergeant]

> I’m trying to memorize the 750 cards of a quiz game that we play in the family

I'm currently doing the same for geography ... flags, capitals, etc. I reckon it will give me a +5 advantage on most trivia nights

[azan_]

Wow, that system is ingenious. I've always struggled with dates, gonna steal your idea from now on!

[hackernewds]

The burning question is "does it work"?