I just save like a lunatic - whenever I like a render it's middle mouse button, right click, save slot, right click, back to game. I've gotten really quick with it now, but that also means with long games filled with lots of nice renders, I get around 50 pages of saves - and that makes finding things a real pain.I loved Choose Your Own Adventure books as a kid and I can see the appeal of making a game like that. However having a built in "go back to your decision" (just like the books would say "Turn back to page X and choose again") would be a better implementation. That said it feels like a waste of rendering/development time to create dead ends in a visual novel.
Yep! I save before decisions so much in games because one wrong decision and you are quickly back at the title screen.
Just... I don't know why I am this way, but it's how I am.