{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/choose-a-time-cue-or-a-routine-cue-based-on-which-one-is-more-stable",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0900",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Choose a time cue or a routine cue based on which one is more stable",
  "summary": "The better cue is often the one your life actually repeats.",
  "kind": "heuristic",
  "body": "The review reports evidence that time-based and routine-based cues can both support habit formation; in one water-habit comparison neither clearly dominated. Choose the cue that is most reliably present in your day. If meetings routinely destroy 09:00, 'after breakfast' may be stronger; if breakfast varies, a clock cue may be simpler.",
  "limits": [
    "Evidence does not establish one cue type as universally superior."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-habit-daily-operating-system"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-8A8121875B5A038C"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "The review reports no clear difference between time-based and routine-based cues in one habit study and emphasizes context stability more broadly.",
      "source_id": "RS-8A8121875B5A038C",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Evidence does not establish one cue type as universally superior.",
      "locator": "See source record"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "You are debating whether a habit must happen at an exact clock time or after another routine."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Evidence does not establish one cue type as universally superior."
  ],
  "example": "Take a short walk after lunch if lunch is stable; use a 15:00 cue if meal timing varies but the afternoon slot does not.",
  "check": "The cue occurs often enough that missing the cue is the exception rather than the rule.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-8A8121875B5A038C",
      "title": "Time to Form a Habit: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Health Behaviour Habit Formation and Its Determinants",
      "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11641623/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-886B56010DBE46F3",
      "title": "Build habits for real time scales, stable cues and automatic starts",
      "url": "/collections/build-habits-for-real-time-scales-stable-cues-and-automatic-starts"
    }
  ]
}