I have found an easier way to refresh the memory tags on my mental calendar for years past.
Now 2014 has well and truly begun, I have three full years to get through in the one-day-per-month part of my refresh routine.
This is something I do during free mental time during the day. But it was starting to feel a bit daunting.
So now I split the review into yearly blocks.
At some point during the day, I call up 2011 and remember images pinned to each day for the same day of the month: it being 17 February today, I remember the 17th of each month.
It doesn't take long, particularly as 2011 is mainly blank as I only began this processing of remembering on 17 December 2011.
At another time, I'll run through the 12 days due for a refresh in 2012 and later those in 2013, tagging the image for the day in January 2014 on at the end, at least for now. As 2014 progresses, it will merit its own separate slot.
I do wonder what will happen when there are too many years for even this more relaxed approach to cope. I have a vague hope that the point will come when I can remember the memory tags without having to refresh them, just think of the date and it appears.
But, for now, I still find pleasure in the reviews.
It is very rare now that I struggle to remember an image. Frequently they are like old friends I want to greet and renew acquaintances, even though it will be no more than 31 days since I last thought of them.
It was like that today, thinking of 17 July 2013. It was the day I gave my mother a book of photos I had laid out with captions and had printed, a delayed birthday present. She was overjoyed with it and for months afterwards would take it out most days to look through.
That's a nice memory to come around every month, whether I dwell on it or not.
Now 2014 has well and truly begun, I have three full years to get through in the one-day-per-month part of my refresh routine.
This is something I do during free mental time during the day. But it was starting to feel a bit daunting.
So now I split the review into yearly blocks.
At some point during the day, I call up 2011 and remember images pinned to each day for the same day of the month: it being 17 February today, I remember the 17th of each month.
It doesn't take long, particularly as 2011 is mainly blank as I only began this processing of remembering on 17 December 2011.
At another time, I'll run through the 12 days due for a refresh in 2012 and later those in 2013, tagging the image for the day in January 2014 on at the end, at least for now. As 2014 progresses, it will merit its own separate slot.
I do wonder what will happen when there are too many years for even this more relaxed approach to cope. I have a vague hope that the point will come when I can remember the memory tags without having to refresh them, just think of the date and it appears.
But, for now, I still find pleasure in the reviews.
It is very rare now that I struggle to remember an image. Frequently they are like old friends I want to greet and renew acquaintances, even though it will be no more than 31 days since I last thought of them.
It was like that today, thinking of 17 July 2013. It was the day I gave my mother a book of photos I had laid out with captions and had printed, a delayed birthday present. She was overjoyed with it and for months afterwards would take it out most days to look through.
That's a nice memory to come around every month, whether I dwell on it or not.
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