{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/make-the-reminder-name-both-when-and-what",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-1260",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Make the reminder name both when and what",
  "summary": "A reminder that says only 'remember this' still leaves half the retrieval problem to you.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "Bind the retrieval cue to the intended action. Instead of a generic alarm, name the situation or time that should trigger the action and the action itself. Experiments on prospective-memory offloading found that target-action reminders improved performance while target-only or action-only reminders did not, with larger reminder benefits under higher memory load.",
  "limits": [
    "The evidence comes from controlled prospective-memory tasks. Real reminder systems can still fail through bad timing, unreliable delivery, alert overload or a cue that no longer matches the context."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-interruption-recovery-and-prospective-memory"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-A8286B71CD2A52EC"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "Across four experiments, reminder benefits for prospective memory were larger under high memory load, and reminders that specified both the target cue and intended action improved performance whereas target-only or action-only reminders did not.",
      "source_id": "RS-A8286B71CD2A52EC",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "These were laboratory prospective-memory tasks; real-world reminders can fail for other reasons such as alert fatigue, poor timing or unreliable delivery.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "A future action matters but you do not want to rehearse it in working memory or rely on remembering it at the right moment."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "The evidence comes from controlled prospective-memory tasks. Real reminder systems can still fail through bad timing, unreliable delivery, alert overload or a cue that no longer matches the context."
  ],
  "example": "Use '14:50 — open the assessment notes and rehearse case 3 aloud' rather than 'assessment reminder.'",
  "check": "When the reminder fires, you do not need to reconstruct what it refers to or decide the first action from scratch.",
  "steps": [
    "When the reminder fires, you do not need to reconstruct what it refers to or decide the first action from scratch."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-A8286B71CD2A52EC",
      "title": "Benefits from prospective memory offloading depend on memory load and reminder type",
      "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36201804/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-6D16E0375C83620B",
      "title": "Resume the right task and remember the future action",
      "url": "/collections/resume-the-right-task-and-remember-the-future-action"
    }
  ]
}