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

309 Pages·2013·7.87 MB·English

by  Helmut Sachs

REMEMBER EVERYTHING YOU WANT AND MANAGE
THE REST

Improve your Memory and Learning, Organize Your Brain, and
Effectively Manage Your Knowledge

Helmut D. Sachs
Remember Everything You Want and Manage the Rest
By Helmut D. Sachs
Kindle Edition
Copyright © 2013 Helmut D. Sachs
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To my father and mother
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