Do you want to be able to read something and better remember it with less effort? You might want to try a new font, Sans Forgetica.
Sans Forgetica is a font designed using the principles of cognitive psychology to help you to better remember your study notes.
It was created by a multidisciplinary team of designers and behavioural scientists from RMIT University.
Memory is a fascinating thing. While reading something in this font can help you recall what you’re reading later, when combined with other techniques the results can seem quite amazing. For example, a memory technique known as “gradual immersion” is quickly being regarded as the best method for learning things like a second language. It was once thought that the best way to learn a language would be to fully immerse yourself in the language, but that’s now known to induce too many stressors. It’s much better to gradually immerse yourself in the material you’re trying to memorize.
Here’s an experiment to try combining the gradual immersion technique along with Sans Forgetica. Read this list of cards out loud to yourself.
Now take any shuffled deck of cards and deal them face up one at a time. Don’t try to memorize the order, just watch the cards go by and name each card out loud. Repeat, but this time do every other card or even larger blocks of cards at once. Repeat once or twice more looking at fewer cards in the stack. The above font, combined with the gradual immersion technique should allow you to memorize a shuffled deck of cards in a remarkably short amount of time – with almost no effort.
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