[krutulis]

I have had similar periods of time in my own life, but even these have begun to fade over many years. Luckily, there are plenty of techniques to avoid this and many are not new. E.g., Diarists have used writing to remember day-by-day for centuries. For travelers like you, remembering or recoding locations by date definitely helps to organize memories.

Unlike a written diary, which is conceptual, I like how Cesar is systematically compiling small visual queues using a discipline amounting to a form of sampling or measurement. I'm not sure how a video beats a photo-of-the-day, but perhaps it simplifies the overall process of selecting images?

I'm also guessing that his daily sampling method might control for the natural tendency of sensational moments and aspects of life to eclipse the less sensational parts over time.

[_mulder_]

I'm not sure how a video beats a photo-of-the-day

I hadn't thought about this before but perhaps it's because the mind doesn't actually remember snapshot images, we don't work that way. We remember events comprising several images, sounds, smells and emotions. In that way, perhaps describing memory as a series of short video snippets is more accurate than the traditional photographic memory model.

[nfg]

I often mess around trying to sequentially picture each room or spot we slept in (50+), walk about them mentally, its interesting how acute (but admittedly malleable) memory can be.