What’s new#

Memletics has been around, in one form or another, since 2003. This page is the honest record of how it has grown — and a note on how we’ll mark changes from here on, so you always know how fresh the version you’re reading is.

The short version: you’re reading v4.1 (4.1.0) — the June 2026 evidence-based rewrite, with a round of consistency and navigation polish on top.

How we version from here#

Starting with v4 we use semantic versioning — MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH:

MAJOR — a big structural change or rewrite, the kind that moves pages around and changes how the manual is organised.
MINOR — new pages or sections, or a meaningful expansion of existing ones.
PATCH — corrections, clarifications, refreshed evidence, and small fixes.

The current version lives in the site config and shows up here. When the science moves and we update a claim — see how we keep Memletics evidence-based — that’s exactly the kind of change a new version captures.

Version history#

Editorial and structural polish on top of the v4 rewrite. No new sections — but the manual reads more cleanly and navigates more sensibly:

Tidier navigation. Sections now sit in a more natural reading order, a few near-duplicate pages were folded into their fuller siblings (all old links still work), and the deeper “science of the learning cycle” no longer sits in front of the practical steps it explains.
Your learning state, all six dimensions on one screen. The state overview now shows every dimension — cell, body, sleep, attention, emotion and mind — as a card you can click straight into, instead of only the three broad layers.
Fewer dead-ends, clearer signposts. Pages that used to trail off now point you onward, and a batch of leftover rough edges — stale cross-references, a couple of older un-rewritten pages — were cleaned up.

v4 — June 2026 — the evidence-based rewrite#

The biggest change since the original. We rebuilt the manual around the handful of proven learning methods the research keeps pointing to — retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, and elaboration — and made those the spine that everything else hangs from.

What’s new in v4:

A proven-methods core. The methods with the strongest evidence now sit at the centre, and the many techniques in the manual are framed as ways to put those methods into practice.
Per-claim evidence. Most pages now carry an “evidence” link that lays out each claim with an honest rating and the sources behind it, all gathered in one de-duplicated reference list .
Some honest reframing. Where current research has moved past older ideas, we’ve said so plainly — including a dedicated what doesn’t work page for the popular myths the evidence doesn’t support.
Learning with AI. New material on using AI tools and tutors well — and on the real risk of letting them do the thinking you needed to do yourself.
One place to plan and run your learning. The old Process and Approach sections are now a single Plan and run your learning pillar that follows the natural cycle — plan, engage, organise, practise, review — with a plain-language hub and a closer look at the science for those who want it. Old links still work.

v3 — April 2026 — the full rehost#

We brought the entire manual back online as a fast, modern, mobile-friendly site — every section, not just the popular ones. This was the foundation the v4 rewrite was built on.

v2 — around 2015 — a partial rehost#

A subset of the manual was rehosted to keep the most-used material available as the original platform aged. Useful, but never the whole thing.

v1 — 2003 — the original#

The first Memletics Accelerated Learning Manual: the Memletic System, the styles questionnaire, the techniques, the process. It introduced ideas that still anchor the manual today, and a lot of it has aged well. v4 keeps what held up, updates what the evidence has refined, and is honest about the rest.

Spotting what’s new#

When we add genuinely new pages, you’ll see a small New badge on them for a while after publication. It’s there to help you find what’s changed — and it clears itself automatically once the material has been around long enough to no longer count as new.

Changelog