Tasks Interrupted: Ready-to-Resume Plan

What the source supports

When unfinished work must be interrupted, a short resumption plan can reduce attention residue and protect performance in the studied interruption contexts.

What it does not establish

• It eliminates all switching costs.
• There is a validated exact three-line template.
• It has a known universal productivity percentage.

Important limitations

• The evidence comes from a small set of controlled interruption studies and does not represent every form of complex, collaborative or high-stakes real-world work.
• A ready-to-resume plan can mitigate attention residue in the studied contexts; it does not make task switching cost-free or imply that avoidable interruptions should be accepted.
• The research supports making a concrete resumption plan, not Brali's exact three-prompt note format, note length, writing medium or timing rule.
• The studies do not establish a universal productivity percentage, a guaranteed performance benefit, or the same effect for every individual and task.

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