The Mental Notebook
A workbook to carry your notes in your head
Studying for an important test?
Link what you need to know to ten pictures you can see, and carry it in your head.
Use it to remember a lot of information for tests or work. Rick Tew uses this system to remember things like the 106 chemical elements and their atomic mass past the decimal point, and 100 new vocabulary words. Five steps, the method behind each one, and the sheet.
She writes her list, then leaves it at home. She links each thing to an odd picture. At the store, she sees each picture. She remembers all ten, with no list.
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After you pay, the download link comes to your email. Save the file when it arrives: the link runs out.
With a free Tewtors account. By card, the download link comes to your email once it goes through. With PromptPay, a person checks your slip first, usually the same day. Save the file when it arrives: the link runs out.
The Magnificent 7, white to black
- Decide to BEWhite belt · carry your notes in your head
- 1. Learn the ten soundsYellow belt · every sound, every time
- 2. Make each number a pictureOrange belt · something you can see
- 3. Link each thing to its numberGreen belt · odd, moving scenes
- 4. Test it by numberBlue belt · write what you remember
- 5. Grow it to 20, then 100Red belt · two sounds, one word
- DO it dailyBlack belt · use it until the link is not needed
Questions
See its number's picture first: seven is key, and key is...? If you cannot see the scene, make it odder: bigger, louder, moving.
Yes. Your mind works like a whiteboard: a new list goes over the old one, and the pictures stay. To keep both, put the new one on new numbers, such as 11 to 20.
Give the ten sounds and the ten pictures an evening. After that, give a list of ten a few minutes. Grow 11 to 20 another day.
A look inside
What you get
- Printable PDF, US Letter and A4
- A filled-in example: groceries on 1 to 10, packing for a trip on 11 to 20
- Eighty words made from the ten sounds, for 21 to 100
- Your sheet and the page to brainstorm your own list on, to print and fill in, one set for each list
- 27 pages
- A digital download: nothing is shipped. Print it at home. For your own use.