Remember Everything You Want and Manage the Rest: Improve Your Memory and Learning, Organize Your Brain, and Effectively Manage Your Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Helmut Sachs

• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Remember Everything You Want and Manage the Rest is a practical guide for anyone who wishes to improve their memory and learning and master information in a knowledge intensive world. It merges rapid memorization and long-term memory improvement techniques with information and knowledge management to provide a comprehensive solution for students, professionals, and life-long learners. The book contains a wealth of easy-to-follow examples.



Memorization is not enough

“Create a memory palace and store everything in your brain.” Does this really work? Yes – mnemonic techniques allow you to memorize a large fact file, learn foreign languages, and give an important speech completely from memory. Consequently, we cover the most effective memory improvement methods and accompany them with real-life examples.



But to really keep what you have learned, you have to reinforce it. This book scratches more than the surface when it comes to the most powerful memory technique of all – Practicing recall using effective methods and modern computer software.



Besides, what do you want to remember in the first place?

There is more information on the Internet than you would ever want to remember – and a lot of it will be outdated in a few years. Don’t “download” it all into your brain or your computer. Instead, become smart about extracting the important information, taking notes, and organizing what is relevant for your life, business, research, or studies, so that you can re-find and use it with ease while it is relevant.



What can you expect from this book?

A comprehensive set of memory improvement techniques: Learn and review faster, pass exams, memorize foreign language vocabulary with confidence, and improve your memory in all areas of your life.

You learn how to extract, organize, and review information from all kinds of sources, including the web, books and e-books, videos, etc., using modern, mostly free computer software.

Re-find your information with ease, build your own digital library, and create bibliographies with the click of a few buttons.

You learn how to take and manage notes in innovative ways, including techniques such as mind mapping and outlining.

A very effective method to improve your attention span and concentration.

Techniques to beat absent-mindedness and stress.

A wealth of references and resources.

Easy-to-follow real-life examples.

✦ Table of Contents

1 Introduction
2 How Do We Form Memories?
2.1 The Man Who Couldn’t Remember
2.2 The Stages of Memory
2.2.1 Sensory Memory
2.2.2 Short-term Memory
2.2.3 Long-term Memory
2.3 Forgetting
3 The Demands of Modern Life and Your Memory
3.1 Attention, Absentmindedness, and Multitasking
3.2 Sustaining Attention and Concentration
3.3 Stress
3.4 Sleep
4 Memory Building Blocks AVECPO
4.1 Association is the Key to Remembering
4.2 Visualization and Mental Images
4.3 Elaboration – Add Information
4.4 Combine Visual and Verbal Information
4.5 Practice Recall to Enhance and Test Your Memory
4.6 Organize Information You Want to Remember
5 Mnemonics
5.1 Acronyms and Acrostics
5.2 Using Acrostics to Create Strong Passwords for Your Email, Facebook, and Bank Website Account
5.3 Associating Information using Visualization – The Link System
5.4 Substituting Concrete Items for Abstract Terms
5.5 The Keyword Method
5.6 Remembering People’s and Fish Names
6 Spaced Review, “Flashy Cards,” and SPRIT
6.1 The Leitner Box System
6.2 SPRIT with a Computer Flash Card Program
7 Learning Foreign Language Vocabulary
7.1 A Practical Method to Memorize Foreign Language Vocabulary
7.2 Enhanced Keyword Method
8 Mental Filing Systems
8.1 The Number Rhyme System
8.2 The Number Shape System
8.3 The Method of Loci – Memory Palaces and Journeys
8.4 Memorizing Several Pieces of Information in One Location
9 Making Numbers Memorable
9.1 The Phonetic Number System
9.2 The Dominic System
10 Mind Mapping
10.1 How to Do Mind Mapping?
10.2 Mind Mapping Applications
10.3 What about Computers and Mind Mapping?
10.4 How to Memorize a Complete Mind Map?
10.5 Advantages of Mind Mapping and Alternatives
11 How to Read and Memorize a Non-fiction Book?
11.1 The Reading Method SQ3R
11.2 Modified SQ3R Incorporating Our Reading Toolbox
11.2.1 Survey
11.2.2 Question – Ask Questions for the Chapter
11.2.3 Read – The Whole Chapter
11.2.4 Recite
11.2.5 Review
11.2.6 Subsequent Spaced Reviews
12 Reading and Knowledge Management in the Digital Age
13 Collecting and Organizing Online Information
13.1 Trusted Folders and Copy Machines
13.2 Subjects and Tags
13.3 Organizing and Finding Items according to Projects and other Contexts
13.4 Using Tags to Let Your Work Flow
14 Beyond Bookmarks – Your Personal Electronic Library
14.1 Creating Your Personal Electronic Library with Zotero
14.2 How Do You Collect Information Items with Zotero?
14.3 Collecting Items from Library Catalogs and Databases
14.4 Organizing Information Items Using Collections and Tags
14.5 Organizing Books with Subject Headings
14.6 Consistently Tagging Web Pages, Articles, and Other Items in Zotero
14.7 Creating Citations and Bibliographies
14.8 Getting Started with Your Personal Information Management
15 Electronic Reading and In-Document Note Taking
15.1 In-Document Highlighting and Note Taking
15.2 Annotating Web Pages
15.3 Annotating PDF Documents and E-books
15.4 Annotating Kindle Books
16 External Note Taking and Outlining
16.1 Note Taking and Outlining with OneNote
16.2 Creating a Summary Outline
16.3 Using Tags in Your Outline
Afterword
About the Author
Bibliography
Notes