Most people who try a memory palace for the first time are surprised by how well it works - and then stall on the second week, when the images start to blur. This page covers both: how to get going, and how to keep your palaces clean as the lists get longer.
A route through a place you can picture, with a fixed order of stops, where you leave one vivid image per item and later walk the route again to collect them. It is also called the Method of Loci - "loci" is Latin for places.
Press Start Training on the home screen, pick the Method of Loci, a palace and a short list - five to ten words is a good start. The camera moves to each stop and tells you what to picture there. When the walk ends, the recall test begins. Use Repeat on the home screen to run the same setup again later.
Big, moving, a little absurd, and touching the object at the stop. "A diamond on the fountain" is weak; "a diamond the size of a football spinning in the fountain, spraying water everywhere and ringing like a bell" is strong. Add sound and smell - the more senses, the stronger the memory.
Because they come from your own walk. If you only remember that you saw a tree somewhere, every item from that session will look familiar. The test asks what was at a specific stop, so you have to know where each image was. That is what makes a score honest.
For an ordered list, the Method of Loci. To recall an item by its number - "what was seventh?" - the Peg System. For a short list you only need once, the Story Method or Visual Chains. For numbers, dates and PINs, the Major System, and for long digit strings, PAO. Each technique has a guide in the app.
Yes, and memory athletes do it constantly. Old images fade within a day or two if you do not review them. If an old image keeps turning up, switch to another palace for the next session and come back later - with five palaces you can rotate.
When you score 90% or more, the summary offers Level Up, which adds items to the next session. Longer lists are where the technique really shows its strength, so it is worth climbing gradually rather than jumping to the maximum.
Voice guidance narrates each stop and each recall question, so you can close your eyes while you picture. Background music is calm and lowers itself automatically while the narrator speaks. Voice guidance is optional, so you can train in silence or with music only.
How long the walk lingers at each stop - Quick, Normal or Relaxed. Relaxed is a good choice for beginners and for anyone who prefers to take their time. Your memorisation time is recorded either way.
It supports VoiceOver and Reduce Motion, uses large readable text with clear focus for the Siri Remote, and offers optional narration of every stop and question.
It is a one-time purchase, with no subscription and no ads. Premium unlocks all five palaces, all six techniques, all twelve word packs, number training with the Major System and PAO, and sessions of up to 15 items.
Sign in to that Apple TV with the same Apple Account you bought Premium with, open Settings in Memory Palace and choose Restore Purchases. It works on any Apple TV signed in with that account.
Any Apple TV running tvOS 15 or later.
No account is needed to train. What the app does and does not collect is set out in our privacy policy, which covers Memory Palace by name.
The Method of Loci on Apple TV: five 4K palaces, six mnemonic techniques and an honest recall test.
Ten minutes, one palace, ten words.
Most beginners score far higher than they expect on the first walk. The real skill shows on day two: see whether you still remember the list tomorrow.
Try this in Memory Palace - Brain Training →Weak images are the reason for almost every miss.
The app suggests what to picture at each stop. Treat it as a starting point and make it stranger.
Try this in Memory Palace - Brain Training →Pegs let you jump straight to any number in a list.
Pegs are reusable like palaces. Use a palace for long ordered lists and pegs when you need item number seven without counting.
Try this in Memory Palace - Brain Training →Numbers are the hardest thing to remember raw and the easiest once they become words.
Number training with the Major System and PAO is part of Premium. See what the Major System is for the full code.
Try this in Memory Palace - Brain Training →The article is part of the word - learn them together.
Read more in memorising vocabulary and noun gender.
Try this in Memory Palace - Brain Training →A few minutes a day beats an hour once a week.
Memorisation time is recorded for every session. Watching it drop while your score holds is the clearest sign the skill is growing.
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