Mostly final draft of spreadsheet, continued work on Anki

The final spreadsheet is here I've changed my Anki tests to teach me the order of the locations, and where I should jump if I want to skip to a specific year. I did this with two types of cards: 1. Given one location, tell me the next several locations. (Given bed, the next locations are nightstand, robe hanger, chair, bedroom door, piano, chair, desk) 2. Given a year range (1000-1099), which locations are within that range? (Bed, Nightstand) For all the special jump locations (The first location in the 1800s, for example, or 1875-, etc.), I've started to learn the exact date/images. (The first location after 1850 is #70, the front door to Billa, whose exact date/image is Flour/1854)

Anki Deck

Aaaand, the Anki deck has begun.

I'm going to be actually putting this into my head via Anki, my favorite spaced repetition software. It quizzes you daily and sets up a schedule for when you review each card, depending on how hard of a time you had remembering. If the facts are relatively easy to memorize, then you end up spending *very* little time on each fact, so it behooves one to split the data up across a great number of flashcards, and learn a few of them per day.

I'm going to be learning this in a bunch of stages.

Stage 1: Learning my journey in order (Front side of card: #1-2, back side of card: "Bed and Nightstand")

Stage 2: Learning the date image that goes with each stop on the journey (Front side of card: Picture of bed, Back side: Diskette (corresponds to 1071)

Stage 3: Given the date image and the location image (Bed+Diskette), learn the basic composer-related images (Front side: Bed+Diskette, Back Side: William Tell shoots apple off of someone's head, Danish pastry)

Stage 4: Decode the images into useful data (Front side: Bed+Diskette+William Tell+Danish Pastry, Back Side: William IX, Duke of Acquitaine, 1071 - 1126)

(Stage 5/6: Add additional images to each coded image to add more useful data, like important compositions, etc)

The Photos

Aaaand, the photos are done, too.

The Spreadsheet: 189 Important Classical Composers, Their dates and their mnemonics

OK! Most of the framework is now complete! (Nice!)

So I have a list of composers (which has swollen a bit, up to 189), and a list of 134 birth years (lots of composers are born on the same year, which saves me some work). I've made mnemonics for every birth and death year, as well as every composer name. I've plotted a 134 stop journey from my bed to Johannesgasse 4a (I have another whole journey inside of Johannesgasse 4a, out to Singerstraße 22, inside there, and then to Stephansdom. Turns out I don't need it, but I imagine it will come in useful in the future for something)

So now I just need to take all these images and string them together into a story.

Also it wouldn't be bad to learn a little bit about the composers that I have completely forgotten (or never knew in the first place).

Here's the spreadsheet