I probably interrupt myself more than anyone else. But my strategy for overcoming this with long and involved investigations is to write my thinking down in a

I probably interrupt myself more than anyone else. But my strategy for overcoming this with long and involved investigations is to write my thinking down in a stream-of-consciousness format. Write down all my thinking, dead ends I went down, why certain assumptions can or cannot be made, everything. Then if I have an interruption it's much easier picking everything up again, even if I have to start over from scratch with a new set of IDs or whatever. Think of it like frequently committing in git.