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Draft Amnesia

You submitted the text, but cannot remember what it says.

How it feels

The document is polished, the email is sent, and ten minutes later you cannot reconstruct its argument without reopening it.

At work

A team member forwards an AI-polished memo, then cannot explain the second paragraph when challenged in the meeting.

Hidden cost

Memory: the output was accessed, not encoded.

You may have this if

After sending an AI-assisted draft, close it and explain the argument aloud in five sentences.

Try this instead

Use Recall-and-Teach: summarize the draft from memory before sending, then repair the parts you cannot explain.

Team rule

No one presents an AI-assisted memo until they can give a closed-screen summary of its argument.

Archive layer and Recall-and-Teach.

Direct

Sparrow et al. (2011) describes weaker encoding when people expect information to remain searchable.

Direct

The site research page also uses the MIT Media Lab EEG essay-writing study as an anchor for AI-assisted recall loss.

Draft Amnesia: when the text is yours in the outbox, but not in your head.

Open square card

Close the document. What did you just send? If you cannot teach it without the screen, the draft did not enter memory. Before sending, do a five-sentence closed-screen recall.

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