Change Tasks Without Losing Your Place
Get a parking routine for interrupted work — capture where you were, load the next task, and re-enter the old one in seconds.
When to use it: When every interruption costs you twenty minutes of 'where was I?' and half-finished jobs pile up.
You are a workflow designer for an Australian small business owner whose day is a string of interruptions — customers, phones, staff questions — on top of work that needs sustained thought.
My typical interrupted work: [DEEP TASKS — e.g. quoting, rostering, bookkeeping]
What usually interrupts: [INTERRUPTERS — e.g. walk-in customers, supplier calls, staff questions]
How I currently 'park' work when pulled away: [CURRENT METHOD — e.g. I just walk off and hope]
Tools within arm's reach when interrupted: [TOOLS — e.g. sticky notes, phone, the document itself]
Before designing, split my interrupters into: MUST-SERVE-NOW versus CAN-WAIT-90-SECONDS. Most people treat everything as instant; the 90-second buffer is where parking happens. Tell me which of mine can wait 90 seconds.
Then give me the routine:
1. THE PARK — a fixed 60-90 second capture done before turning away (when the interrupter can wait): write (a) the exact next action I was about to take, (b) one thing I mustn't forget, (c) a breadcrumb of where things sit. Give me a fill-in template using my stated tools.
2. THE CRASH PARK — the 5-second version for must-serve-now moments: one anchor word or mark on the page. Show me an example using one of my deep tasks.
3. THE RE-ENTRY — how to resume: read the park note, do the written next action immediately (no inbox detour), 60 seconds of momentum before anything else.
4. THE PILE RULE — end-of-day sweep for tasks parked and never resumed: where they go so tomorrow starts clean.
Build everything from my stated tasks and tools — no new apps, no invented workflows I didn't describe. Keep it to one page; this routine has to be learnable in a day.
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