How do you use technology to memorize set of terms?

Question

Always there are few set of items needs to be memorized in short span of time. Here are my following cases.

1) My Job requires some set of items needs to be memorized.
2) I am a developer who has to learn 150+ tags within next 3 days.
3) Fix developer/support has to remember minimum of 125+ tags (set of possible values).
4) It is better if team's SQL developer knows all the table and columns in my database.
5) When guys join new department or job. Memorizing few related items will definitely gives some benefit.

Most of the cases, I suggest people to understand the domain better and nothing wrong in using google (but remember correct search-word). But recently I came across a junior developer who took lot of effort in memorizing set of things (150+ table structures, fix protocol tags, almost 300+ configuration items from property file) and was very very successful in his job and was swift in responding for support queries. Needless to say he is smart worker too (not a dumb guy).

When I try to recollect some of the successful employees I met, they were so good in remembering entire schema and they did in short span of time. But I don't argue that memorizing alone gives success, but it greatly helps when situation demands.

Here my question is, I am not good at remembering things, but it shouldn't be lame excuse. Hence I am evaluating using technolgies better to memorize set of items. Not very much interested in memory techniques (mnemoninc, photography memory, etc..). Even I have recorded 100+ items and listen to that whenever I found free time, defintely there were some fruitful result. Now I need your suggestion about what are all the ways to exploit technology to memorize.

There could be so many reason why guys remember a subject (passionate, essential, author, creator, responsbile). Not interested in dissecting why guys remeber. Rather much interested in using ways, and techniques (cheat sheet...) to remember a set of itmes.

Note : I appreciate, encourage people who could rephrase my question better.
Note : I have kept couple of cheat-sheet close to my monitor, honestly it did not help me :).

Answer 1

Try Anki, which is interactive software that helps you memorize things. It accepts a variety of different kinds of inputs and responds to your rate of learning. It runs on Windows, OSX, Linux, and BSD.

Answer 2

I'm not sure technology is of very big help here (maybe medical technology :) ) but I guess the best way to remember can be different from people to people. Organizing the "things" you need to remember and writing them (on a sheet of paper, not on a keyboard) helps me a lot.

Do not try to learn all items at the same time. I think 100 items in one time is way too much. If you could divide the whole package in logical blocks of maybe 15-20 items and learn block by block, you would make it quickly as I think in 10-15 minutes you can memorize very well 20 items easily.

This said... I still have to use a cheat cheet for low use passwords...