| 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 |
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.