Put what you know in a place. Walk to remember it.

Mindhall starts with a short walk instead of a tutorial. Your own home or your own body is the palace.

1. Pick five places in your home or on your body, in the order you meet them.
2. Place five things on them, with one vivid scene at each place.
3. Take a 15-second break.
4. Walk the route and recall the five things forward, then backward.

Most people recall all five in both directions. It is the method Simonides of Ceos is said to have used about 2,500 years ago, and it is the first room of the hall. How a memory palace works

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   Notes that link to each other

   Write notes with [[links]], [[link|alias]] and #tags. Backlinks and unlinked mentions appear on their own, and a context panel shows what each note touches: its links, the notes around the same place, notes with the same tags and the cards made from it.

   • Search with filters: pinned, unplaced, with cards, by tag
   • Templates for study notes, vocabulary and talks
   • Autosave, pinning and a trash kept for 30 days
   • A graph of one note or of your whole hall
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   Palaces drawn as floor plans

   Start from a template (home, route, body, car, school, workplace, building) or a blank plan, then add rooms and places. Mindhall draws the palace as a hand-drafted floor plan with your walking route, numbered places and a hand mark at every fifth place. Put a note on a place with a vivid scene, then take a tour walk or a recall walk, forward or in reverse.

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   Cards from your own notes

   Write ==hidden word== or Q :: A inside any note and it becomes a flashcard. Title cards, place cards and Major-system number cards come from the same material. Reviews are scheduled with FSRS, a modern open algorithm, at a target recall you choose: 90% unless you change it.

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   A course in 10 wings and 40 lessons

   Short lessons with exercises you do, not just read: about 29 kinds, from palace walks and peg lists to Major-system drills and pairing names with drawn faces. Challenges include π to 100 decimals, a full deck of cards and 15 names and faces.

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   A daily rhythm that stays small

   Today shows what is due: a few cards, the next lesson, a walk, a quick note. Finish and the day gets its seal. Streak freezes or a 5-of-7-days goal keep it humane, and the ledger keeps your seals, recall rate and numbered milestones.

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   Private and offline

   No account and no sign-up. Notes stay on your phone and in Android’s own backup, and the app works fully offline. Export a complete backup or plain text and Markdown at any time; import Mindhall backups and .md or .txt files.

Forty short lessons in ten wings, from how memory works to making it last. Each lesson ends with something to do.

1. Wing IHow memory works
2. Wing IIVivid imagery
3. Wing IIILink and story
4. Wing IVMemory palace I
5. Wing VMemory palace II
6. Wing VIPeg systems
7. Wing VIINumbers: the Major system
8. Wing VIIIPeople and languages
9. Wing IXReal material: talks and study notes
10. Wing XMaking it last

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Practical articles on the methods Mindhall teaches, each with a short answer, steps to try today and the studies behind it.

• G-01What is a memory palace? How to build one with the method of lociA memory palace stores what you want to remember on places along a route you know. Its history, what studies show, and seven steps to build one.Read the guide
• G-02The Major system: how to remember numbersThe Major system turns digits into consonant sounds and numbers into words you can picture. The code, the rules, a 00–99 example list and how to use it.Read the guide
• G-03Peg systems: number-shape, rhyme and body pegsA peg system gives each number a fixed image, so you can store a list and recall any item by its position. How number-shape, rhyme and body pegs work.Read the guide
• G-04How to remember names and facesForgetting names is usually a problem of attention and encoding. A three-part face–name method from research, a routine for meeting people, and review.Read the guide
• G-05How to memorize a speech or presentationMemorize the structure, not every word. Put the points of a talk in a memory palace, rehearse from memory and space your practice before the day.Read the guide
• G-06Spaced repetition and active recall: a study guide for studentsRereading feels like learning; recalling is learning. What studies on the testing and spacing effects show, and a weekly study plan that uses both.Read the guide
• G-07Linked notes, a second brain and the memory palace: how they fit togetherA second brain stores what you know; a memory palace and spaced review keep it in your head. How linked notes and the method of loci work together.Read the guide