Have you looked into Anki/Supermemo? e.g., https://jmcavanagh.neocities.org/ankiforscience/ankiforscien... provides a great example of using it to remember scientific facts, derivations, algorithms, etc

My the most fruitful approach is to wall myself off anything which wastes my cognitive ability. No smartphone except of regular calls, no websites with animations, no any books or articles which contains some words I consider as "bad". Less attention to dull people. Appreciate when your brain suddenly remembers for you something unexpected like the fact which was sitting here for tens of years without any use before you have remembered it successfully, any time I meet this I think deeply about how is it possible to remember anything for so long. Living without any mood disturbances is my top priority.

this is the bellcurve meme, only think has worked for me is note taking and making it easy for me to recall when i forget. I've accepted that I've bad memory and I just try to work around it, but i agree with the other comment in this thread about practice, once you practice enough it becomes sort of can switch to that way of thinking and usually that puts you in sort of the right path to recall the right thing. all this is just personal experience.

https://geekodour.org/docs/documents/notetaking/

edit: i still haven't figured out how as a kid i could remember whole chapter literally word-by-word but now I can't even properly remember a phone number. hah.

Anki/SRS, sleep, blueberries, daily cardio. Do all of those and you should have memory improvements.

It's just a lot of practice. Pay attention to something you want to remember. Then recall it a bit later.

If you are watching a movie, you literally have to note an interesting dialogue as something to recall later. Then try to recall it later. But not in your own brain. Talk to someone about it.

Repeat a 10k times with different types of things over a few years and your memory will feel great.

I improved my memory after I addressed my multiple vitamin deficiencies, esp vitamin D. All my grogginess disappeared after a few weeks of heavy vitamin supplements.

Id say the best i ever done was to practice recall. Just try to think about the subject when you are bored, recall facts, add some concious integration after the learning.

Writing by hand is the best, but if you don't want to do that, speak out loud. If you don't want to do that, read it and memorize it many (10+) times. Just like how I can still remember all the prices for common items from when I was a cashier even 15 years later, stuff you touch often sticks in your head, so constantly expose yourself to the information you need to know at all times.

Use it or lose it!

I’ve lost a great deal of working memory over the past few years as I’m just too reliant on offloading anything more than 2-3 bits of info onto a notepad or input box

If you ever observe a fine-dining waiter, they can easily remember and perfectly recall upwards of 20-40 bits of info (highly chunked though so likely only 5-10 I imagine). It’s just repeated practice daily.

Try stories, decide what you want to memorize and make up a very silly story that incorporates the items you want to memorize. The more ridiculous the better. Replay the story in your mind until it sticks. It's much easier than lists and it has the added advantage that you can pick an item and see how it relates to the other items by following the story from the item forward.

Sketch the things of interest / your representations of them on a paper. It will improve your ability to keep larger structures in your head, also later without the paper.

How did you determine you have aphantasia? I definitely feel as if I cannot visualize things the same way as others, if at all.

See https://www.waysidebooks.com/pages/books/10833/bruno-furst/s...

Sleep makes a huge difference, followed by walking or any other exercise (outside seems better than inside.)

Handwritten notes are more memorable than typed notes, as you... note.

For exams, I prime the pump by working sample questions shortly beforehand.

Supposedly making a concerted effort to recall something that you've (almost?) forgotten can also help. One method (hack?) for recalling specific terms or names that you almost remember is going through the alphabet until you hit the letter that it starts with.

Look of interesting suggestions here.

Sleep, water, exercise, and health eating are huge ones.

Are you okay trying something from the early 2000s internet? If that is the case, then you might try this following exercise. Look at things around in your room and then immediately start describing them with as much detail as you can. The whole exercise sort of grates your brain against reality and this makes it much better to come up with things where it needs to and remember it.

Then you start doing this after closing your eyes. Pick up any scene and then immediately start describing it in as much details as you can. The point is to have details which are really minute and tiny such as how does a chair feel like, what is the texture, what is the color, what does the texture feel like on your hand, how high is the seat, how high are the things around you. Trick is to keep going for at least 1-2 minutes without thinking about what to say next.

Take notes, on your computer. Keep the notes in one place (at least for each topic).

I don't have enough memory to keep track of everything on my project at work. There's too many loose ends. There would still be too many loose ends if I had a better memory, too (for any realistic value of "better"). So I keep all that in a file of notes about the project, and keep it updated as things change.

Ctrl-f beats any memory trick ever invented.

you can't fool your memory, if you have fewer connections between neurons in your brain, it's more limited, if you have more, you'll remember more things. There are different types of memory - conscious, unconscious, short, long.

learning from tiktoks, you won't learn anything, because a moment breaks your concentration between pieces of information. that's why the best way to learn is long-term. go to classes, lessons, write down, read, retell, and all of this together. read not brochures or short books, but full-fledged books, because the integrity of information is absorbed by the body only in this way. if it is absorbed faster, it is lost faster. and you need to nourish your knowledge from time to time, and not just tell yourself "I know everything and that's the end" after university.

you can't fool hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, it doesn't work that way.

Improve muscle memory. Body will do the recall.

Meditation, cardio, nutrition, practice, etc.