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Homigrams, our Team Members Use

Our team members use homigrams for their academic, professional and personal use. Check out a few below.

Homigrams I Use - Pinaki

Hi, I am Pinaki, the founder of Homi.

In my academic life, as the curriculum expanded in size in higher grades, I realized I was beginning to struggle with memorizing lessons.

While I met the requirements in problem-solving, or math, I seemed to be coming up especially short in memorizing fact-dense lessons such as definitions in Geography or properties of elements in Chemistry. Demands of a grading system aside, I found it difficult to retain even trivia that interested me.

As my academic career came to an end, memorization remained an undefeated nemesis that I hoped to return to some day.

Years later, as I was reading Aristotle’s, The Art of Rhetoric, I paused to reflect all that I had retained from the book thus far. Come to think of it, I had read hundreds of books before, but what had I really retained? Maybe some disconnected facts; but no coherent lessons that I could teach someone about. This was no more acceptable.

I decided to look for a solution. Fortunately, a clue was to be found in the same book. Aristotle makes a mention of the Method of Loci, attributed to Simonides used by Greek senators to memorize long orations. Following the clue, I discovered the world of Mnemonics.

Visual mnemonics recommends turning to-be-memorized lessons into pictures using wordplays, associations, and other such techniques. As you do this, you engage with the lessons, albeit in an unintuitive way, to "encode" them in your memory. I saw that using this method, I could now retain more than I had ever been able to.

I applied this method to structured information, such as Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions. It worked with surprising efficacy. With this flaming sword in hand I could now return to defeat my old nemesis.

Homi is now a mission. Many students around the world are gifted in many special faculties, but perhaps not with a good natural memory; students who should not be held back from fulfilling their aspirations because of this one shortfall.

I believe, for many of them Homi could be the missing piece.

Here are some homigrams I currently use in my professional and personal life.

Homigrams I Use - Snigdha

Hi, I’m Snigdha, an Instructional Designer and Content Developer with a keen interest in Educational Psychology. Back in school, I always found it difficult to memorize concepts without context. Without realizing it, I came up with a technique of my own – memorizing lessons as stories. Of the lessons we were taught in History, Geography, Physics, or Chemistry, I only retained the ones that I could visualize in my mind as a story. In an Education system that rewarded rote learning, I was adapting using methods I had intuitively developed, but didn’t quite understand the workings of.

How I wish my teachers had taught me about mnemonics back then!

My interest in Learning was piqued when I began studying Educational Psychology. I took some courses on the subject and at the same time I came across Homi. Homi brought back familiar, childhood memories – of a method I had developed on my own.

I began to make homigrams for concepts in my courses. Though I couldn’t help being skeptical in the beginning, I found that the homigrams helped me memorize concepts in a fun, effective, and efficient way. Here I am sharing a few homigrams I have made.