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Are you drowning in messages?

Most teams cannot tell whether their message load is a nuisance or a real problem. Answer 14 quick questions to find out where you stand and what to fix first.

Are you drowning in messages?
A 2-minute self-assessment of your message overload.
Pick the answer closest to your week. There are no right answers, only your own.
1How many messages do you feel you have to triage on a normal day?
2When you sit down to work, how often does triage eat the first hour?
3How does the unread count trend over a week?
4How often do messages arrive faster than you can act on them?
5How many apps do you check to feel caught up?
6How often does one request span email, chat, and a meeting before it is done?
7How much time goes to switching between apps just to find a thread?
8When something is "somewhere," how confident are you that you can find it?
9How often does a request slip because no one clearly owned it?
10How often do you rediscover a task that quietly went past its deadline?
11When you are out for a day, how much falls through the cracks?
12How often does someone ask "who was handling this?" with no clear answer?
13When a decision gets revisited, how easily can you find what was decided and why?
14How often is the context for a thread stuck in one person's head?
Answer all 14 to see your grade.
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How it is scored

The grade comes only from your answers

Each question is worth 0 to 3 points, from healthy to drowning, for a total between 0 and 42. We add up your answers, place you in a band, and surface the three themes carrying the most pressure. There is no outside data and no industry figures involved. The grade is your own self-report, reflected back so you can decide what to do with it.

Questions about the scorecard

Where does the grade come from?
Only from the 14 answers you pick. We do not pull in benchmarks, survey averages, or any data from outside the form. Your score is the sum of your own ratings, banded into treading water, wading, or drowning.
What do the three focus areas mean?
We group the questions into themes like sheer volume, scattered channels, things slipping, and lost context. The three themes where you scored highest are the ones putting the most pressure on your week, so they are the natural place to start.
How does this+that help with what the scorecard finds?
For volume and follow-through, this+that turns incoming messages into tracked tasks and runs the repetitive work for you. For lost context, it keeps a shared memory of decisions, so the answer to who was handling something is always there.
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