Method of loci · for real rooms
Memorize vocabulary in a place you already know.
Lociway turns a photo of a real room into a memory palace. Pin IELTS words to the spots you walk past every day, then let spaced repetition lock them in.
Five words, five places, one route you can walk from memory.
You never forget the layout of your own home. Lociway hangs new words on that map you already carry.
How it works
Three steps, borrowed from memory champions.
Photograph a real place
Your bedroom, your walk to work, your grandmother's kitchen. Somewhere your body already knows without thinking.
Pin what you're learning
Drop each word onto a fixed spot in the photo. The AI suggests a vivid image to glue word and place together — you stay in charge of the story.
Recall on a schedule
Walk the route from memory. Spaced repetition (SM-2) brings each word back exactly when you're about to forget it, until it sticks.
One method, many languages
A sound you know, a scene you can see, a place to keep it.
The keyword method links a new word to a familiar sound, then ties that sound to a vivid scene. It works the same way in Spanish, French, German, or any other language. The memory palace gives every scene its own place.
perro
/PEH-rroh/ · means dog
Your pet lines up a row of slippers by the bed and barks at each one.
Read the Spanish guide →trois
/trwah/ · means three
A waiter balances three glasses on a wobbly tray at your kitchen door.
Read the French guide →der Handschuh
/HANT-shoo/ · means glove
You try to squeeze a sneaker onto your hand. A glove is literally a hand-shoe.
Read the German guide →o pão
/pow(ng)/ · means bread
A loaf slams onto the table — POW! The baker wears a clothes peg on his nose for the nasal sound.
Read the Portuguese guide →il letto
/LET-toh/ · means bed
You flop onto the bed and let one toe dangle over the edge.
Read the Italian guide →scarce
/skairs/ · means not enough; limited
A scared shopper lifts the sofa cushions and finds only one grain of rice.
Read the English guide →Sound hooks are rough guides. Always check pronunciation with native audio. How to build keyword mnemonics for any language
A method with a record
The technique world memory champions actually compete with.
This isn't a productivity hack someone invented last year. Memory athletes use spatial routes to encode ordered information, and controlled studies show that people can learn the same method. Lociway turns the technique into a guided practice using places from your own life.
A controlled study found method-of-loci training improved durable memories, with benefits still associated with performance four months later.
The method of loci traces back to the poets and orators of ancient Greece and Rome. Lociway just puts a real photo behind it.
A 2024 study found keyword mnemonics combined with limited retrieval practice outperformed restudy for English L2 word pairs.
Read the research: method-of-loci training and keyword mnemonics with retrieval practice.
Why it's different
Your real place is the whole point.
Familiar places give you personal, already-learned retrieval cues. Lociway lets you build on those cues instead of first learning a completely new virtual space.
3D virtual palaces
like memoryOS
They ask you to learn a new building before you can use it. Lociway starts with a route that is already familiar to you.
Generic AI images
like Mind Palace
A generated scene can be vivid, but it may not carry the personal spatial cues of a place from your own life.
Plain flashcards
like Anki
Flashcards are strong retrieval tools. Lociway adds an optional spatial and visual encoding layer before scheduled review.
Lociway uses your room, your route, your familiarity — the parts of memory the others leave on the table.
What's inside
A real technique, made effortless.
The Journey Method
Words live at ordered stops along a route you can walk in your mind — the technique memory champions actually use.
AI as your co-pilot
Ask for a memorable image for any pin. It assists; it never auto-generates your whole palace. The story stays yours.
Spaced repetition
An SM-2 schedule adapts review timing to your recall, so more practice goes to the words that need it.
Milestones, not streaks
Progress you can feel, without a guilt-trip counter punishing the day you take off.
Private by design
Your photos and palaces stay on your phone. No account, no sign-up, nothing to leak.
Made for IELTS
Tuned for English and IELTS vocabulary, where remembering the exact word on exam day is the whole game.
Get the app
Start with the room you're sitting in right now.
Start with one familiar photo and a small set of words. Try the web version now, free, no sign-up — the iPhone app is on its way to the App Store.