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Show HN: RebilderU – Learn with a near perfect memory

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This starts off similar to the "mind palace" from the BBC TV series Sherlock Holmes. And gets very detailed and interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

From the site:

Step 1 - Find a place: We start by preparing your spatial memory. To do this, you need to choose an actual place or building that you’re very familiar with. This could be your home, work, school, or any place that you can close your eyes and imagine or "see" in detail ...

There is a book called "Moonwalking with Einstein" that talks about memory techniques in a very readable and entertaining way.

This site looks to be based on the same techniques (Memory Palace AKA Method of Loci) that are described in the book.

Great book. "The Art of Memory" by Frances Yates is also a fascinating read. Chronicles the memory palace technique along its entire 2300 year history in popular culture.

If there's no charge for the first two weeks, why make me enter my payment information? Just lock me out after the trial's up - if this works as advertised, I'll plunk down my dollars in a heartbeat.

Fair point. I suppose with a such a new method the barriers to signing up need to be as minimal as possible. Give us a few hours and we'll try to have a trial system up by tomorrow or the weekend

Maybe you should allow the user to test the product without having to go through the account creation process? You have no idea how tedious it is for me to see yet another account create form.

Working on a change now.

I disagree. Account creation is very important to building a client book of business. There should be two options: 1) Sign up with Facebook/Google+ or 2) Enter only first name and email address. Other information can be gathered at a later date.

This looks promising -- or I was misled by another one of those "weird techniques".

The technique was used for about 2300 years and is the primary method used by modern memory champions. Essentially, we're just simplifying the process of using it to learn. In other words, we organize all the information logically and make it easy to create mnemonic images, which traditionally, have been the largest barriers to learning this way.

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