Mnemonaut

Thirty words, five minutes. How many can you remember? Mnemonaut is a six-week memory course. Take a test on day one, spend fifteen minutes a day learning and practising a method, and retake the same test every week. Your scores become a curve — your own numbers. SEVEN METHODS • Pictures: turn words into big, moving, absurd scenes • Story chain: each thing crashes into the next • Memory palace: your home, your commute — one thing per spot • Number codes and pegs: a picture for every number 00–99 (Major System) • Keyword method: a sound-alike joined to a foreign word’s meaning • First letters and texts: mnemonics for sequences; learn poems and speeches with gradual gaps • Spaced review: the FSRS algorithm tells you when to recall each list USE IT ON YOUR OWN STUFF Shopping lists, talking points, phone numbers, vocabulary, a poem, exam notes — paste it in, pick a method (the app suggests one), recall on time. Recall gives you a cue, never multiple choice. A COURTYARD HOUSE TO START WITH A line-drawn Chinese courtyard house with thirty spots, from the mounting stone outside to the back door — practise from day one without building a palace. PAY ONCE. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR PHONE. • Free: every test and score card, week one, the built-in palace plus one of your own, two lists, spaced review, backups • One-time unlock: weeks 2–6, unlimited palaces and lists, number drills, photo palaces • No subscription, no account, no ads, works offline Research note: in a 2017 study in Neuron, people with no memory training who practised the method of loci 30 minutes a day for 40 days went from recalling about 26 of 72 words to about 60, and still recalled over twenty more than before training four months later. What grows is how well you remember using the methods — use them every day to make it yours.