According to new research, setting digital reminders could clear brain space to remember other things that we never recorded.
Here’s an all-too-familiar situation: You frantically packed the night before for your week-long beach trip. Luckily, you remembered all the essentials: socks, underwear and a phone charger. But upon arrival, you realize that you forgot to grab your toothbrush., researchers suggest that offloading important to-do items — for example by setting reminders on your phone — could clear brain space to better remember the little things like your toothbrush.
Each time the subjects moved a circle, a new one appeared, flashing blue if they were assigned to the left, or pink of they were assigned to the right. The challenge was to remember which colors the pieces flashed when they first appeared. In half of the trials, participants could set digital reminders for moving the circles to the left or right immediately after they flashed. In the other half, they couldn’t set these reminders.
Jotting down intentions improves memory, but relying too heavily on notes could backfire. When the researchers erased the reminders, participants forgot what colors the offloaded circles had flashed.
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