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Prospective Memory Needs External Cues
- Prospective memory relies on cues and is unreliable without external prompts.
- Writing or capturing tasks creates your own cue and reduces missed-timing recall failures.
Clear Your Head With A Brain Dump
- Do a regular brain dump to capture everything from tasks to dreams and free mental bandwidth.
- Use paper or digital capture—whatever you already have—to create an external cue for prospective memory.
Keep A Master List Of Committed Tasks
- Move only committed tasks into a master list and leave aspirational items on your brain dump.
- Protect the master list like a velvet rope to avoid guilt from unfinished non-commitments.