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Overview

In order to garner all the number-remembering goodness possible, you'll need to commit the not terribly difficult translation table to memory. This section here is about getting Mnemisis running as quickly as possible so that you can begin playing with it. It may be a tad inscrutable if you're not versed in what's going on behind the scenes. Like why, for instance, all your text is getting turned into a number scrumble.

Prep work

The usual:

Download [1], Decompress, Untar, Read README, agree to terms of EULA, mail me a gadzillion dollars, etc...

studly/fluffybunnypants/mnemisis$ ./configure
(...WHOLE lotta output...)
(...configure finds Python headers, doesn't explode...)
studly/fluffybunnypants/mnemisis$ make bundle
(...normal ramblings of a Make here...)
(...several pages later...)
Making Bundle file
(...wicked drive-grinding...)
(...time passes...)
(...quite some time later...)[2]
(...computer makes pleasant 'beep' to let you know it's all done...)
studly/fluffybunnypants/mnemisis$ PS1="$ "
$ Ctrl+L

Switch (yourself) {

Case "GUI":

Once the bundle file has been created (see 'prep work', above), you can start up the GUI with MNEMISIS.py

You should see something very much resembling this.

Now, lets go ahead and put a number to remember into the upper box, in order to translate it. Press Enter when you are satisfied with your entry. Or perhaps earlier - sometimes it pays to keep yourself a little hungry.

	Alternatively...
	You can also put text into this box - pressing Enter will automagically translate it into numbers, which shouldn't be too much of a shock, as our goal is to translate them into words, not from them.

You may now drag the knobs (the second to leftmost can be seen here in the active state, colored yellow) around, you can begin trying to make words out of your numbers. As you can see in the middle scrollbox, the numbers "212" already translate into several words.

Here we see the number divided up into three sections, each with various translations.

If you double-click one of those translations ("decimal" highlighted, is about to be double clicked), it will move to the lower text box...

...Allowing you to build a sentence that "means" the same thing as the number. This output can then be highlighted with the mouse (seen here), copied, and pasted to wherever you keep these sorts of things. Or you can just remember it.

The No Caps menu item is so you can exclude (to some degree of accuracy) proper nouns from the translator boxes. It's easier for me to make up a good mnemonic if it doesn't have people I don't know in it.

The only other thing to note is the Hard Boundaries setting, which is there so that you can cross the streams. That is, move one of the knobs into another's territory. You will see crossed lines on startup, between the green and orange translators (see first screenshot, above). Doing this makes your translation WRONG, which is why boundaries are on by default.

That's really all there is to it, outside of learning the translation table.

Case "CLI":

So - you hate GUIs, run everything from your totally schweet customized prompt, and abhor letting a script do the exercise that your hands should rightfully be doing in miles-typed - this section is for you, my cohort.

Memory insertion

Pick a number you want to remember

42

Feed it to mnemisis

$ ./MNEMISIS.py t 42 heroin

Check the translation (optional)

$ ./MNEMISIS.py n heroin 42

Remember the snot out of the word or phrase that Mnemisis gives you [3]

the secret of life is: heroin

	Obviousness
	The secret of life is not really heroin

You wait until the time is right [4]

$ wait What do you expect me to 'wait' at? $ wait for hot chicks I see no hot chicks here. $ inv You carry: A table, all broken and smashed. An exploded hobo cigar. An hobo. The hood ornament off of a Rolls-Royce Phantom II. Slack. $ time It's getting darker, perhaps you should go to bed. You may be eaten by a grue. $ exam datebook Kernel panic: LIFE : failed assertion (hasFriends == -1) Power down.

You bring that puppy home

You remember your key phrase

the secret of life is heroin

	Obviousness
	You may wish to use Mnemisis' synonym function liberally...