Thanks, Pete. I agree wholeheartedly w/ this post. I also think ABC lists are the most amazingly simple yet utterly effective technique to come along. It's almost like telling someone stuck on the pc to hit "enter" and you're home free.
Try using ABC lists for Journaling, for Dreams, for Problem Solving. They are totally amazing.
Try even MMing off some important words on an ABC list.
Make up or take a main sentence from a book and then use the letters of the sentence as an ABC list. The thing about this is that there will be more repeted letters w/ fewer peculiar ones.
Take PhotoReading the Whole Mind System. Probably all the needed info for PhRing could be put in this title. I can just notice that by looking at the letters, every main point can be included here from tangerine, super read, dip, mind mapping.
And, say take the letter T in system. Going up you can use the word TANGERINE and going down you can use the word TRAIN as illustrated in the manual.
The ABC concept is vast.