Your mnemonic dictionary: from number and card images to practice and review
Choose associations you can picture clearly, then practise recalling and checking them. The mnemonic dictionary brings your number and card names, images, practice modes and saved records together.
Connect numbers and cards to your own images
Choose an image for a number or card and you have an association you can practise. In the Korean sound-based example, 00 is 스카이콩콩 (a pogo stick), 01 is 공휴일(달력) (a public holiday/calendar), and 02 is 절굿공이 (a pestle). These are Korean mnemonic examples, not English sound matches. Adapt the associations to images that are clear to you.
The mnemonic dictionary in MemorySports lets you save those associations and practise them. This article explains the product and how to use it. For the underlying methods, read how to memorise numbers or one card, one image.
Watch the walkthrough
Watch the guide on YouTube · Korean-language video
- 01:09 Example dictionaries and creating entries
- 03:27 Four response modes
- 04:05 Direct advance, F and Space
- 04:58 Item times and total time
- 07:11 Reverse practice
- 07:59 Automatic rhythm
- 09:34 PAO roles and combinations
- 10:55 Records & review
Copy an example and make it yours
Sign in and open Tools → Mnemonic dictionary, or open the dictionary directly.
Four Korean examples are available: two-digit sound associations, two-digit shape associations, card sound associations and card PAO. Preview the names and pictures before choosing Create my copy. Changing the interface language does not translate these examples: their content remains Korean.
Your copy is an independently editable dictionary. Replace names or pictures that do not come to mind clearly. Later changes to the original example will not automatically overwrite your edits. The number-shape names are draft labels based on the original pictures; card PAO role images absent from the source are left empty.
You can also start with an empty dictionary. Choose numbers or cards under New dictionary, then enter a name for each item. Add a description when it helps you picture the scene. Names and descriptions save automatically; wait for the saved status before moving to another entry. A small range, such as 00, 01 and 02, is enough to begin. See membership details for dictionary allowances and class-hosting access.
Choose a response mode for today's goal
Choose Train with this dictionary and select your entries.
| Mode | Useful practice | Your action |
|---|---|---|
| Direct advance | Repeat familiar associations at your own pace | Recall the image and move to the next item |
| Self-report | Learn new associations or investigate confusion | Recall, reveal the saved answer and assess your response |
| Type answer | Check association accuracy in a quiz | Enter the saved name and submit |
| Automatic rhythm | Recall at a steady tempo | Recall within the interval and mark missed items |
In self-report, distinguish an accurate recall, a different image coming to mind, and not knowing. Typed answers are compared with the saved name and explicitly registered aliases. For automatic rhythm, start with a comfortable interval and adjust it to a tempo you can follow reliably.
Use F and Space in direct advance
- Space / right arrow (→): move to the next item.
- F: mark the current item as not recalled.
- Undo mark button: remove the current item's mark.
F only adds a mark. Pressing it again does not undo it. The mark is recorded when you advance. Personal and class practice use the same shortcuts; they do not capture typing inside an input field.
On a phone, tap the large number or card display to advance. In reverse practice, tap the displayed image name. Use the separate button outside that area to mark a missed recall.
The result shows per-item times and a total. The total adds active time for the items you advanced past, excluding preparation, pauses, hidden-page time and saving waits that prevent advancing. Each item records up to five minutes; reaching that cap is shown with ≥. Old records without timing are not backfilled, and partial timing is labelled with its recorded coverage.
Missed-recall marks and their counts remain visible only to you. An unmarked advance records your own decision to move on, rather than an independently checked correct answer.
Extend practice with reverse mode and PAO
Reverse is an option shared by all four response modes. It asks you to recall the number or card from its image name. With typed-answer practice, enter the number code for a number dictionary or select the matching card, then submit. Include leading zeroes, as in 00 for a two-digit dictionary.
PAO means person, action and object. Expand an entry's PAO section, add all three role names and choose Save changes. Unlike the main name and description, these edits require that save button.
The PAO roles and combinations practice includes individual roles and three-item combinations: take the first item's person, the second item's action and the third item's object to form a scene. The roles and combinations in the later part of the video were created as demonstration examples. Continue with how to memorise a deck of cards to explore PAO in card memorisation.
Review your records and practise the connections that need attention
In Records & review, revisit the entries and responses from saved personal practice. Check Direct advance times and missed-recall marks, along with items marked during automatic rhythm. In automatic rhythm, F marks the previous item that has just passed, rather than the current item used in direct advance.
You can practise only the marked items again, or match the dictionary, direction and response-mode conditions to find scheduled review items. Look at what came to mind clearly and where you got stuck, adjust the associations that need work and practise again.
You do not have to fill every entry first. Choose one example dictionary and a few entries for your first practice session.
Example sources
The video and built-in examples draw on MemoryNotes' Korean materials for number sounds, number shapes, card sounds and card PAO.