Alright, I just started this last week and have been playing around with memorization techniques since. So far the easiest one I have tried to use is giving each individual edge piece a name. For example the red/green (RG) is a strawberry, the orange/yellow (OY) is fire. For corners, I am still playing around with ways but the one I am currently using is just giving each corner a number. Like my UFL corner is 1, my UBL corner is 2, etc, etc. I then say which color will be on top. I timed a solve for the first time yesterday and got 8:46.70 including memorization. That isnt too bad for my first week. I then wrote down exactly what I memorized. I put it in story format.
Story:
Flounder (YB) and santa (RW) walked up to an old apple tree (GR). They looked up at the clouds (WB) and santa started to bleed and saw blood (RB). Then o.b. trice(OB) showed up eating a carrot (OG) and drinking a sprite (GY). It made his veins (BR) turn green. He then looked up at the sun (YO), looked over to the freeway(GW), and then back at the sun(YO). (Flip the orange white.)
for corners it was: right handed Y-perm, 2G, 7W, 1O, 6G, 8R, 1R, 5B
I dont know if this helped much, but it was worth a try. haha. Good luck!