The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
set up task-bracketing system so that the individual habits that you're learning or that you're trying to learn have a much greater probability of being executed and consolidated, meaning that pretty soon that they will just naturally become reflexive.
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So task bracketing sets a a neural imprint, a kind of a fingerprint in your brain of this thing has to happen at this particular time of day. So much so that it's reflexive.
It's very important for the establishment of behaviors that are associated with a habit but not necessarily the habit itself. And beautiful studies in both animals and humans that record the electrical activity in the dorsal striatum find that the dorsal strriatam is associated meaning it becomes active at the beginning of a particular habit and at the very end and after a particular habit.
The tool that I'm referring to is something called task bracketing. We have in our brain a set of neural circuits that fall under the umbrella term of the basil ganglia. The basil ganglia are involved in action execution meaning doing certain things and action suppression not doing certain things.