an aide-mémoire

Notes or pictures that one uses to remember something. When I was studying for the test, I made an aide-mémoire of all the steps in photosynthesis.

(formal)

a piece of writing or a picture that helps you to remember something I write notes to myself and put them on the board. It serves as an aide-mémoire.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Alway	['ɔ:lwei]
Tapio	TAH-pee-o (Finnish)	Finnish, Finnish Mythology
Hipolit	hee-PAW-leet	Polish
Benita	be-NEE-tah	Spanish
Ptah	PTAH, PTAHKH	Egyptian Mythology
Thandiwe	-	Southern African, Xhosa