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About this checklist

What the checklist measures and how it is scored.

About this checklist

The Memory Strategies Checklist helps you find out which memory strategies you currently use, and how often you use them. Each of the 40 items describes a practical way of supporting memory in everyday life.

You can complete it before and after a memory intervention – such as MEMORehab – to help track how your strategy use changes over time.

ScoreHow often you used the strategy
0Never in the past month
1A few times in the past month
2A few times per week
3Almost every day
4At least once a day
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How to use it

How to rate each item honestly and what to do with your answers.

How to use it

This checklist helps identify which memory strategies you currently use and how frequently. Rate how often you have used each strategy over the past month.

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The checklist

The full 40-item checklist as a printable worksheet.

The checklist

How often have you used each of these strategies to help you remember? Rate each one from 0 (never in the past month) to 4 (at least once a day).

Practice worksheet

Memory Strategies Checklist

Rate how often you used each strategy in the past month: 0 = Never · 1 = A few times this month · 2 = A few times a week · 3 = Almost every day · 4 = At least once a day.

No personal data collected via the platform. Practice on your own device.

Asked someone else to remind me or to remember for me
NeverEvery day
Asked others to email or text me a reminder
NeverEvery day
Made an entry on a paper calendar or diary
NeverEvery day
Checked my paper calendar or diary
NeverEvery day
Made an entry in my phone calendar or reminder app
NeverEvery day
Received/heard a reminder from my phone
NeverEvery day
Took a photograph to help me remember something
NeverEvery day
Put an object in a place to serve as a reminder
NeverEvery day
Made a list on paper
NeverEvery day
Made a list in my phone
NeverEvery day
Wrote myself a paper note or post-it note
NeverEvery day
Wrote a note in my phone
NeverEvery day
Set an alarm or timer
NeverEvery day
Wrote a reminder on my hand
NeverEvery day
Made an association with a person’s name when I learned it for the first time
NeverEvery day
Tried to learn more about a new person’s name so that I could remember it better
NeverEvery day
Made mental associations between places and items to be remembered
NeverEvery day
Repeated new or recently learned information in my head
NeverEvery day
Created images in my head to remember a number/list of things
NeverEvery day
Created stories in my head to remember a number/list of things
NeverEvery day
Mentally grouped things together that were similar
NeverEvery day
Used self-talk to help remember something
NeverEvery day
Associated one task with another part of my daily routine
NeverEvery day
Took notes when receiving instructions
NeverEvery day
Practiced recalling new information after short and longer intervals
NeverEvery day
Sent myself an email
NeverEvery day
Marked an email as unread or flagged it until completed
NeverEvery day
Used the voice recorder on my phone
NeverEvery day
Used a paper filing system
NeverEvery day
Used an electronic filing system
NeverEvery day
Relied on computer software to remind me
NeverEvery day
Used a GPS device/app to find a route
NeverEvery day
Referred to notes or a manual to complete a task
NeverEvery day
Asked another person for help on a current task
NeverEvery day
Asked someone else for information I couldn't remember
NeverEvery day
To recall someone's name I thought of other people’s names from the same context
NeverEvery day
Performed an alphabet search to remember a word or name
NeverEvery day
In order to remember, I tried to think of the context in which I learned or did something initially
NeverEvery day
Made an entry in a diary or journal
NeverEvery day
Looked at old photographs as reminders
NeverEvery day

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