Free self-checks
Measure What Your Productivity App Won't
Ten short self-checks, two to three minutes each. Every result gives you a plain reading, one thing to try first and the research behind the advice. No sign-up. They are for reflection, not diagnosis.
All self-checks
Burnout Self-Check
Twelve statements about how work has felt over the past month. It shows how strong the signs of burnout are, and which part is leading.
Organised around the three dimensions of burnout described by Christina Maslach and colleagues: exhaustion, cynicism and reduced efficacy.
Strategic BoredomFind Your Rest Style
Seven questions, one for each type of rest. It points to the kind of rest you are most likely missing.
Built on the seven types of rest described by physician Saundra Dalton-Smith in her 2017 book Sacred Rest.
Decision ArchitectureOverthinking Check
Eight statements about how your mind handles problems. It shows which loop, if any, catches you most.
Inspired by Susan Nolen-Hoeksema's research on rumination and by research on worry.
Nervous SystemNervous System Check
Ten everyday moments. It shows whether your body tends to settle, rev up or shut down under ordinary pressure.
Uses three everyday states: settled, revved up and shut down.
Nervous SystemWork-Rest Balance Check
Five questions about how hard you work and how well you recover. It shows whether the balance looks sustainable.
Draws on recovery-from-work research by Sabine Sonnentag and colleagues, John Pencavel's study of working hours and output, and K.
Decision ArchitectureDecision Fatigue Check
Six questions about how your decisions hold up across a day. It shows how much the load is costing you and where.
Draws on research on the cost of making many decisions, including Kathleen Vohs and colleagues on choice and self-control.
Nervous SystemStress Response Check
Seven everyday scenarios. It shows which of four stress responses, fight, flight, freeze or fawn, you reach for most.
Uses the stress responses described by physiologist Walter Cannon (fight or flight), research on freezing, and therapist Pete Walker's clinical writing on the fawn response.
Optimization ParadoxDigital Overwhelm Check
Six questions about how your devices affect your attention. It points to the pattern costing you the most.
Draws on research on interruptions and attention, including Gloria Mark at UC Irvine and Cary Stothart on notifications, and on social comparison and fear of missing out.
Cultural CritiqueHow Deep Does Hustle Culture Go?
Six questions about how much of your identity and self-worth runs through work. It shows where the hook is strongest.
Built around ideas from Derek Thompson's 2019 Atlantic essay on "workism" and Anne Helen Petersen's writing on burnout as a structural problem.
Restorative EnvironmentsRecovery Space Check
Six questions about the room where you try to rest. It points to the one change most likely to help.
Draws on environmental psychology, including Roger Ulrich's 1984 hospital window study and research on noise, evening light and home clutter.