The save is genius, and much faster than you’d expect.

Grab (1) your current map card (and only that one), (2) your journal and all its cards, (3) all characters with all their stuff stacked with them (use the die cards to record how much wear your items have remaining), (4) then the action deck and discards (with separator cards).

Banished stuff goes behind the banished divider, and everything else gets sorted back into the box.

More precisely, the rest of the map is discarded to “the past”, including fog cards, and everything in the past is sorted back into the box.

When reloading, take (1) your map card and put it on the table, then (2) your journal and stuff and (3) your characters and split ’em up, putting their figures on the map card, and (4) the action deck and discards, putting them back.

I keep the “past” divider on the table to hold those special discards (non-action deck cards are not placed in the normal discard pile), and the “banished” divider for banished stuff.