The restart costs more than the interruption.
The interruption ends in a second. The restart can take the rest of the afternoon.
You sit back down. The work is exactly where you left it. But you are not.
Naya is built for that moment, the coming back, so the return costs less than the interruption did.
In plain terms. Interruption recovery is the work of rebuilding your mental context after something pulls you away: a message, a meeting, a child, a call. The task waited for you; the context did not. Naya holds that context so returning is a step back in rather than a start over.
The interruption is brief. The recovery is long.
The real price of an interruption is rarely the seconds it takes; it is the long climb back to where you were.
The message took thirty seconds. Finding your place again took twenty minutes.
That gap, between the work still being there and you being there, is what interruption recovery is about.
The page is saved. The state is gone.
When you step away, the visible things stay: the document, the tab, the task. What drains away is the state around them.
- What you were deciding, and what you had already ruled out.
- What you were about to do: the next move, now gone.
- Why it mattered: the reason that made it worth doing.
That state is what has to be rebuilt, and rebuilding is slow.
Hold the thread across the gap.
Before. Put the state down in a sentence or a voice note before you step away, or the moment you are pulled.
During. Naya keeps the thread without turning your absence into a problem. No streak breaks. No nagging.
After. When you return, it surfaces just enough to step back in. No lecture. No backlog. Enough to remember where you were.
Common forms this takes.
Related reading.
Questions
Is interruption recovery the same as focus?
Can I not just leave myself a note?
Does Naya block interruptions?
Come back without starting over.
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