How to Remember Simple Lists Using the Link and Story Methods

The Link and Story Methods are two easy-to-use memory techniques.

They can help you to remember lists using simple associations or by connecting the items with an unusual story.

So, let's assume that you want to remember a to-do List. Using the Link Method, you would place the information into a series of images.

For example, you could remember this list: car wash, buy tomatoes, and post a letter by imagining...

pulling into a carwash...

... then emerging with the windscreen covered in tomatoes...

... and then hitting a letter box.

Let's use the Story Method to remember: collecting a dog from the vets, posting a parcel, and paying a lawyer. You can imagine a story like this...

... you're leaving the vets with your dog happily leaning out of the sunroof...

... suddenly, he jumps into a large, open parcel sitting next to a mail truck...

... as the parcel is loaded, you realize it's going straight to the lawyer who you need to pay today.


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