Set the alarm
Setting the alarm is a favour done for somebody who does not yet exist: yourself tomorrow morning. The reward is entirely absent tonight, which makes it one of the easiest steps to skip. The pictures below give it a fixed place in the evening.
♂Set the alarm
A boy holds a phone showing clock and moon icons and points at a red button with a bell symbol.
About this visual support
Tasks that only pay off in the future are the hardest to remember, and the alarm clock is a clear example. Tonight it costs a few seconds and gives nothing back. Only the next morning shows whether it was done, and by then it is too late to do anything about it. For anyone who finds it hard to picture their future self the task easily becomes invisible, no matter how often it has been forgotten before.
Visual support ties the step to something that already happens. A picture between brushing teeth and reading means the alarm is set as part of the evening, not as an extra thing to remember once the light is already off.
A concrete tip is to put the phone on the charger only after the alarm is set. Two things that belong together are forgotten less often than one on its own. In Routined the alarm can sit as the last step of the evening routine, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.
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