A memory aid is any device that helps the natural memory to remember something more easily. Memory aids come in two basic types, material and mental.
A material memory aid is anything physical that reminds you of something. A pencil and paper is a memory aid, if you use it to write down your shopping list.
Another material memory aid is to put something in the wrong place to remind you to do something. For example, I will sometimes throw a book into the middle of the room to remind me to put the bins out, or to do some other chore. (Then I leave the bin in the middle of the garden remind me to put the book back!)
But when people say, memory aids they usually mean special mental techniques, or mnemonic. Mnemonics range from a simply using the first letters to spell a word, such as SMART goals, or they can be more elaborate and intricate mental skills.
Dominic O’ Brian used his so-called Dominic Device, to win the world memory championships. These memory skills will enable you to memorise literally thousands of bits of information, numbers, lists and formulas and speeches.
Memory training is a serious business and it could change your life if you learned just a few techniques.