Memory palaces.
A palace is a familiar place (a house, a library, a stretch of boardwalk) broken into named loci. Pin a dictionary entry to each locus, then walk the palace in your head. The shape of the place becomes the shape of what you know.
No palace adopted yet. Pick one from the stock gallery. You can always swap, and adopting one doesn't replace the system you've onboarded with.
Photo-walk creation lands in a future sprint. For now these are the templates to start from.
A stone farmhouse on a hillside outside Siena. Olive trees, a long shaded terrace, a kitchen with the door open to the garden.
A 400-square-foot studio in a Brooklyn walkup. Every fixture is a locus because every fixture is necessary.
Borrowed from the Bodleian. Fifteen reading rooms, each with one defining feature: a stained-glass window, a portrait, an ancient atlas open to a particular page.
Brighton on a clear day. Fourteen open-air loci: the carousel, the pier, the candy shop. Each one big enough to hold a scene.
Not yours, but yours. A 1950s suburban two-story: picket fence, screen door, 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.