Palaces
This memory palace builder lets you sketch a place you know and mark its stops, called loci, in the order you would walk them, or adopt one of the ready-made palaces below. Pin an entry to each locus, then walk the route to recall them in order.
You have no palaces yet. Adopt a ready-made one below, or create your own from a place you know.
A stone farmhouse on a hillside outside Siena, with olive trees, a long shaded terrace and a kitchen whose door stands open to the garden.
A 400-square-foot studio in a Brooklyn walkup. Every fixture is a locus because every fixture is necessary.
Fifteen reading rooms borrowed from the Bodleian, each with one defining feature: a stained-glass window, a portrait, an ancient atlas open to a particular page.
Brighton on a clear day, with fourteen open-air loci (the carousel, the pier, the candy shop), each big enough to hold a scene.
Not yours, but yours: a 1950s suburban two-story with a picket fence, a screen door and a kitchen that always smells of toast, adopted by anyone who didn't grow up in a Tuscan villa.
An underground commuter station: Paris, Tokyo, Mexico City, take your pick. The architecture is universal because the Method of Loci needs the shape, not the surface.