Master Your Memory
Like Duolingo, but for Master Your Memory. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android
Key ideas in Master Your Memory
- Cramming creates short-term familiarity but rapid decay
- Review intervals should expand as the memory stabilizes
- Spacing sessions forces the brain to re-encode information
- The forgetting curve flattens out over time
- Desirable difficulty triggers deeper consolidation
- Easy recall signals to the brain that no extra 'strengthening' is needed
- Why spaced review is superior to massed practice (cramming)
- Reviewing too early is inefficient
- The 'sweet spot' for review is just before the memory is lost
- The ideal sequence of review intervals to beat the forgetting curve
- The relationship between retrieval effort and memory strength
- Identifying the 'perfect time' to review based on memory state
- The brain actively clears out unused information to save energy
- Periodic retrieval signals that data is 'useful'
- Why spaced review is superior to massed practice
- The steepest drop in the forgetting curve happens shortly after first exposure
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Master Your Memory the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
When a memory starts to feel stable and strong, what should happen to your review intervals?
Get it right to open this lesson and 169 more in the app.
Where Master Your Memory takes you
Stop forgetting what you learn. Discover the science-backed secrets to making information stick in your brain forever using the power of sleep and smart practice.
- 1
Make It Stick Right Now
- The Secret of Spaced Repetition
- Why Cramming Always Fails
- Testing Yourself as a Learning Tool
- Connecting New Facts to Old Stories
- 2
The Night Shift: Sleep and Memory
- What Your Brain Does While You Dream
- The Power of the Afternoon Nap
- How All-Nighters Trash Your Progress
- Deep Sleep: The Brain's Save Button
- Dreaming as a Rehearsal Space
- 3
Spotting Memory Traps
- The Illusion of Knowing
- Why Highlighting Is a Waste of Time
- How Stress Blocks Your Recall
- 4
Building Mental Folders
- Grouping Information into Chunks
- Using Your Senses to Remember Better
- The Art of the Memory Palace
- Why Teaching Others Helps You Learn
- 5
Handling Complex Information
- Mixing Up Different Topics
- Learning from Your Mistakes
- The Benefit of Hard Work in Learning
- When to Take a Break for Maximum Gain
- Managing Information Overload
- The Role of Curiosity in Memory
- 6
The Brain's Filing System
- Short-Term vs. Long-Term Storage
- The Hippocampus: Your Brain's Librarian
- How Memories Move to Permanent Storage
- The Physical Shape of a Memory
- 7
Advanced Memory Science
- How Emotions Glue Memories in Place
- The Chemistry of a Strong Memory
- Why We Forget: Pruning the Garden
- False Memories and How They Form
- The Future of Memory Enhancement
- 8
Memory Through the Ages
- How Memory Changes as We Grow
- Keeping Your Brain Sharp in Old Age
- Lessons from History's Greatest Minds
8 sections · 34 units · 170 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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