{
  "schema_version": 1,
  "id": "ready-to-resume-interruption-boundary-2018",
  "canonical_url": "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/evidence/ready-to-resume-interruption-boundary-2018/",
  "json_url": "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/evidence/ready-to-resume-interruption-boundary-2018/index.json",
  "decision": "propose-protocol",
  "decision_label": "Protocol candidate",
  "reviewed_at": "2026-09-11",
  "reviewed_by": "Brali Evidence Reviewer",
  "source": {
    "title": "Tasks Interrupted: Ready-to-Resume Plan",
    "url": "https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2017.1184",
    "type": "primary-study",
    "doi": "10.1287/orsc.2017.1184",
    "citation_text": null,
    "study_design": null,
    "population": null,
    "intervention_or_exposure": null,
    "outcomes": []
  },
  "supported_claim": "When unfinished work must be interrupted, a short resumption plan can reduce attention residue and protect performance in the studied interruption contexts.",
  "unsupported_or_overstated_claims": [
    "It eliminates all switching costs.",
    "There is a validated exact three-line template.",
    "It has a known universal productivity percentage."
  ],
  "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."
  ],
  "target_hack_ids": [
    "ready-to-resume-plan"
  ],
  "target_protocol_ids": [
    "brali:ready-to-resume-plan"
  ],
  "risk_flags": [],
  "notes": "Highest-value genuinely new productivity protocol from this pass. Proposed action: before a forced or deliberate switch from unfinished work, capture where you stopped, the next concrete action, and one critical restart detail."
}