My take on this is, that if you have a reminder, you will start remembering to RC on your own too. Just because you have a reminder.

And even if from the beginning all you are using is a reminder, I'm pretty sure you will get so used to doing them, that you will be able to drop the reminder.

I remember this from when I had a wristwatch timer to remind me. After a while I started looking at my watch all the time, if it's time to RC yet. That way you have a few spontaneious reminders, and few prompted ones.