Before you start: Step 5 reads your dashboard selection — Step 1 Curriculum, Step 2 Subject, Step 3 Chapter, Step 4 Topic. Choose all four on the Dashboard first. With nothing selected the chat opens, but ASAI has no topic to build a technique around.

Memory Techniques

Step 5 · Master it by memory on the Dashboard holds six techniques. Every one is a chat — no forms, no decks, no drag and drop. What changes between them is the method ASAI uses to make the topic stick.

Card	Anchor it builds	Strongest when
Memory Palace	Locations in a place you know	You have a long ordered list
Acronyms	A word or phrase from initials	The items have tidy initials
Rhymes & Songs	Rhythm and melody	You learn by ear
1-2-3 Method	The shape of each number	Ten items or fewer
Storytelling	Characters and plot	Concepts connect logically
Peg System	Rhyming pegs, 1 to 10	You need random access

One chat, six styles

All six open the same chat screen with the same skeleton — only the technique differs.

• The first message is sent for you. You never type an opener: the chat begins Help me memorize <Topic> using the <Technique> technique.
• The header shows just the technique name, with a Tools button beside it. The Insights panel from Step 2 is not in this view — memory sessions track phases, not concept coverage.
• The input is yours from the second message on.

The four phases

Each technique runs the same four phases, driven from the server:

1. Priming — ASAI sets up the first two or three anchors and checks they land.
2. Building — the remaining concepts are placed, one anchor at a time.
3. Testing — ASAI quizzes you and prompts where you stall.
4. Mastery — the same quiz, unaided, in a harsher order.

You are never asked to confirm a phase change; ASAI moves on when your replies show you are ready.

How a session ends

Each technique has its own completion test, listed on its page. When ASAI judges you have met it, it appends a hidden [MEMORIZE_COMPLETE:XX] tag carrying a confidence score from 0 to 100. You do not see the tag — the visible cue is the session closing with Continue to Next Topic.

Stop early and the session just ends: nothing scored, no mastery recorded.

In your history

Memory sessions appear as <Technique> — <Topic> — for example Memory Palace — Characteristics of living organisms — so six sessions on one topic stay distinguishable.

Good to know

• Each technique is its own session. Starting Acronyms after a Palace walk begins fresh rather than continuing the same lesson.
• The input placeholder reads "What subject should I test you on?" even though the session already knows your topic and technique. It is a copy mismatch, not a decision — type your reply regardless.