Verbal Overshadowing

I missed this scientific result from the 90s - and now it's being held in question.
The accepted wisdom always was if you described something, it helped you remember.
Then Jonathan Schooler used the scientific method to test it and found the opposite effect.
However,a fascinating New Yorker article called "The Truth Wears Off" reports that replicating results, the gold standard of the scientific method has shown a decline effect. Not just for this verbal overshadowing (good name) but also for a theory of the sexual appeal of symmetry, and tons of other scientific findings.
Jonathan Schooler joked, "it was like the cosmos was habituating to my ideas."
Anyway, you don't know what to believe any more, if you ever did.
So my question is: How helpful are dance notes for remembering choreography?
I write them out for people, but maybe just a few clues are best, and then people need to tap into muscle memory or something, if verbal overshadowing is true...