Having an intention to perform an activity (i.e., a prospective memory) in the near-term can interfere with ongoing activities. In addition, associating that intention with distal activities insulates people from interference until the time that the distal activity must be performed. The question we address in this research is whether or not context-linked intentions are cued by related information before the distal activity is engaged thereby testing the notion of whether an intention is spontaneously retrieved. The interim answer to this question is that linking an intention to a distal context not only insulates one from interference but also prevents one from noticing that intention-related information is being processed unless the intention-related material is a perfect copy cue for responding. We conclude that linking an intention to a specific context protects people from interference, but an exact cue is still noticed and can cause interference even when it occurs in the wrong context.