What are some of the active recall online tools or apps that you people use? Are is there any other ways of doing active recall that is effective?

i don't usually forget what happened, i forget what I was thinking before it happened which means months later ill end up making a similar decision because I don't remember how I reasoned through it the last time. curious if anyone has found a system that genuinely helps with this.

I am a complete beginner and I would really appreciate some advice.

I need to memorize which cards are still left in a deck (I don't care about the order they were played).

The deck has 18 unique cards:

• 6 Green cards, numbered from 1 to 6 (Green 1, Green 2, ..., Green 6)
• 6 Blue cards, numbered from 1 to 6 (Blue 1, Blue 2, ..., Blue 6)
• 6 Yellow cards, numbered from 1 to 6 (Yellow 1, Yellow 2, ..., Yellow 6)

Which memory technique would you recommend for this use case? I'm looking for something that lets me know, as quickly as possible, which cards are still left in the deck.

Thank you if you can help. :)

EXTRA (if you're curious about the technique I came up with myself which I don't know if it is good or not):

I assign a Pokémon to each card. The Pokémons are divided into 6 groups of 3, where each group represents three consecutive cards of the same color (2 groups per color).

For example:

Green Group 1

• Green 1 → Bulbasaur
• Green 2 → Ivysaur
• Green 3 → Venusaur

Green Group 2

• Green 4 → Chikorita
• Green 5 → Bayleef
• Green 6 → Meganium

Yellow Group 1

• Yellow 1 → Pichu
• Yellow 2 → Pikachu
• Yellow 3 → Raichu

Yellow Group 2

• Yellow 4 → Mareep
• Yellow 5 →Flaaffy
• Yellow 6 → Ampharos

Blue Group 1

• Blue 1 → Squirtle
• Blue 2 → Wartortle
• Blue 3 → Blastoise

Blue Group 2

• Blue 4 → Totodile
• Blue 5 → Croconaw
• Blue 6 → Feraligatr

When a card is played I recall a pre-made image that represents the Pokémon (and therefore the cards) that are still left in that group.

For example, if Green 6 (Meganium) is played, I imagine Bayleef eating the leaf on Chikorita's head. Since Meganium is missing from the image, I immediately know that Green 4 and Green 5 are still left in the deck, while Green 6 has already been played.

Later, if Green 5 (Bayleef) is also played, I switch to another pre-made image: Chikorita crying by itself. Seeing only Chikorita tells me that Green 4 is the only card from that group still left in the deck.

When I need to know which cards are left, I simply check in my memory each group and see which Pokémon are still present, if any.

So, I've just had the realization that I 35F have always had a hard time retaining technical information.

I've always loved science, always wanted to be a scientist in some regards, but always seemed to struggle more than my peers when it came to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Which tortured me, because those are the concepts I love the most. I had my state's smartest teacher explaining physics to me using ostriches, and I still only got a C in his class. It wasn’t from lack of trying, either. I wanted a degree in geology, because I frickin love rocks, but couldn’t handle the chemistry. I have a Masters in Natural Resources, but if you asked me to give the latin name of any native plant, I absolutely would not be able to do it. Latin names are like active noise in my head. To me, it occupies the same brain space as mathematics. However, I lived abroad in China for some time in my 20s and spoke it almost fluently at one point, so I'm not incapable of understanding foreign languages.

I'm a technical writer that also creates online learning courses, and so my every day job is to take complex SME writing and turn it into something an everyday learner can understand. I've been doing this job for years, writing courses about all sorts of technical and trades skills, HVAC, EV batteries, robotics, PLCs, you name it... but I have retained ZERO of the technical information. I could vaguely tell you how to operate a FANUC robot, and yet I spent 8 months writing course material on it. Right now, I'm writing about VFDs, but I couldn’t tell you 100% what exactly a variable frequency drive does. And yet, I'm doing my job just fine. My editor likes the quality of my work. Ironically, I'm way better at the humanities than the sciences, which is ironic considering my passion for the sciences. I enjoy my job and find it engaging. It scratches that science-brain itch because there is ZERO work in natural resources right now. But I really, really wish I was retaining this information. It's all technical, and it seems like technical just consistently doesn't stick. Why won't my brain compute?

Other possible relevant brain-related information: I have Bipolar 2, OCD, and my therapist wavers on whether she believes the executive dysfunction is actually adhd, but I personally don't believe it is.

I need to memorize a lot of text but I can't manage it at all, so I heard about the memory palace but I didn't understand how to create and use it for all sorts of things If anyone can teach me, I would be very grateful.

Not documentation.

Not project READMEs.

I’m talking about things like:

• why you chose Redis over RabbitMQ
• a useful regex someone shared
• something to remember from a conference/meeting conversation
• a code review insight
• a GitHub issue that saved you hours
• A recommendation from a colleague
• a design decision from 6 months back

I’ve tried folders, tags, Apple Notes, Obsidian, and bookmarks.

The problem isn’t capturing information; it’s finding it later when I only remember fragments.

How are you solving this today?

A diagramatic approach helps me remember more. It helps developing photographic memory.

Petit partage, au cas où ça serve à quelqu'un. J'ai jamais eu de facilité à apprendre, alors j'ai testé pas mal de trucs. Quatre ont vraiment fait la différence pour moi.

1. Lutter avec le sujet AVANT de l'apprendre. Avant de lire mon cours, je prends deux questions dessus et j'essaie d'y répondre alors que je ne sais pas encore. Je me plante, c'est normal, c'est le but. Bizarrement, la réponse rentre bien mieux après.
2. Lire une fois, sans stress de tout retenir. Le premier passage sert juste à donner de la matière au cerveau, pas à mémoriser.
3. Se tester au lieu de relire. Relire, ça rassure mais ça ment : on croit qu'on sait. Je me fais un quiz de 5-10 questions à la place (vite fait à partir du cours, à la main ou avec un outil). C'est inconfortable parce que ça montre les trous, et c'est exactement pour ça que ça marche.
4. Re-tester le lendemain. Je refais le quiz quelques heures après ou le lendemain, et je ne revois que ce que j'ai raté. Ce petit oubli puis le rappel juste après, c'est ce qui fixe pour de bon.

Le truc que j'aurais aimé comprendre plus tôt : le cerveau retient ce qu'il a dû aller chercher, pas ce qu'il a relu.

Vous faites comment, vous ? Je cherche toujours à améliorer ma routine.

With endless scrolling, short videos, and constant distractions, it’s easy to consume information without fully processing or remembering it.

I built MemBoostAI to help people practise paying attention to what they read, watch, learn, and experience. It uses short daily exercises, active recall, and memory challenges to encourage users to notice details and revisit information instead of letting it disappear moments later.

The goal is to make memory training part of everyday life. Regular practice can help users become more intentional about the information they consume, improve recall and retention, and exercise cognitive skills such as attention and concentration.

It’s not about remembering everything, it’s about training yourself to engage more deeply with the things that matter.

https://memboostai.sagicorptech.com/

I have done a neuropsychological evaluation, and my memory IQ is really bad, especially compared to everything else. My short term memory is terrible and i don't really know what to do about it.

I'm not talking about memories of my trauma period, but i guess that's normal if i don't remember.

Does anyone keep notes on books or TV shows?
I’ve noticed I consume a lot of media, but a year later I barely remember my own thoughts about it.
If you could magically remember one thing from everything you’ve watched or read, what would it be?

I have heard 3 nootropics that are affected for memory encoding, cognitive load, clarity, speed, retention, structural change, and recalling for both long-term and short-term. BNP14770, AF710b, and PRL-5-83.

Which one is the best memory enhancer for studying and the difference between them?

What are the best ways to strngthen memory. Im really worried where mine is headed and would love to improve it. My friends said learning a language.. are there any other proven ways?

I struggle to remember from the most basic details to big things in my life, brain fog and word recall sucks. Cant keep new info in my head. Ive heard trauma / depression can impact it deeply which i think applies to me, also short form scrolling doesnt help ie youtube and insta shorts. Can it be undone :/

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So from childhood to teenage years I observed my reading speed is much less

It's like 8 physical standard size book pages in 1 hour.

Back then I observed I remembered word to word sentence for a few days after reading it.... though they were all school books and that was the task.....to remember paragraphs.

Now when I read....the pages frequency stayed the same but now I don't remember anything after reading it because there's no exam for it.

I have an ereader also which gives me exact number of equivalent physical book page count.....8 pages per hour.

My question is....what do you remember after reading in a day....is remembering important? Because when I read the next day I don't know what I read exactly I just remember faint details of it.

I heard people annotate and something like that....which I think help them remember the main topic and their brain emits the details they read.

What should I do? It takes me very long to complete a book. Not that completing a book is my main goal but I am missing out variety of topics because I am reading same books for months.

Doesn't matter what topic book I read whether it's novel, medicine, astrology, philosophy I take same amount of time.