For the interruption — pulled away mid-thought, and the thread is gone. For forty minutes it was all holding together. Then the phone rang, or someone called your name, and you looked back and it had vanished — not the task, the thread. The live arrangement of everything you were holding at once. Now you're re-reading, re-tracing, sitting at sixty per cent of where you were. The problem was never starting. It's re-entry. The Save Point borrows the idea from video games: before you stop, you save your state — not just where you were, but what you were about to do and the one detail that pulls the rest back. A thirty-second ritual, three fixed prompts, same every time. No new document, no app. What's inside: The three prompts — the next action, the open question, the single breadcrumb that reloads the rest A five-minute setup you do once Worked examples from a real day — admin, the school email, the call you can't defer The ten-second version for when you have no warning How to keep it from drifting into wallpaper Instant PDF. Keep it on the fridge, in your notes, wherever you'll reach it first. Part of the Protocol Collection — tools for demanding brains. A practical tool, not a treatment. For persistent difficulties, talking to a GP, therapist or counsellor is always the right call.
