The Memory Palace: How the Method of Loci Actually Works
Placing images along a familiar route beats rehearsal for remembering lists in order. How the memory palace works, the evidence, and its limits.

Placing images along a familiar route beats rehearsal for remembering lists in order. How the memory palace works, the evidence, and its limits.

The best ways to improve memory are free: test yourself, space your reviews and protect sleep. Here is what the evidence supports, and what it doesn’t.

Spacing reviews out beats cramming across hundreds of experiments. How spaced repetition works, choosing gaps, making good cards and picking an app.