Take Photos or Mental Snapshots of Important Things

If you want to remember a person, object, or scene better, deliberately capture it either by taking a photo or by taking a mental snapshot—often by deciding to 'snap' the scene with your mind, sometimes with a blink. Pay attention while framing or observing it. You do not need to review the photo later for the memory benefit. Mental snapshotting can improve visual memory but may reduce memory for concurrent auditory information.