What to do with this meeting
Enter one meeting, answer a few short questions, and get back one clear decision, with a sentence you can send.
The short version
- Type in one meeting on your calendar. Answer a few short questions about what it needs from you. You get back one verdict (attend, send input, decline for the notes, or add a gap) and a short sentence in your own words to copy out.
- A day of meetings flattens you not because any one of them is hard, but because they are packed together with no gap to recover in. The largest lever is fewer meetings you sit through, and a settling space after the demanding ones.
- This is not a test and it returns nothing about you. It reads what you type and hands back a decision and a line you can send.
Not every meeting needs you present. Some need only your input, which a message can carry. Some need only your awareness, which the notes can carry afterwards. The questions below sort one meeting into the smallest thing it genuinely asks of you, and, if you are attending, whether the calendar shape around it will let you be there.
Before you begin
Pick one meeting, the next one you are quietly unsure about, or the recurring one you have never questioned. Nothing you type is saved.
Questions
Question 1 of 4
Your verdict
Copy the line and use it
Select the text below and paste it into a reply, a chat, or your own notes. This page keeps nothing.
One thing to read off your own answer
Worth knowing. The idea that a piece of your attention stays behind when you switch tasks is called attention residue: Sophie Leroy, “Why is it so hard to do my work?”, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 109(2), 2009, found that people who moved to a new task before finishing or fully closing the previous one performed worse on it. Meetings with no gaps are a near-perfect way to trigger the effect all day long, which is why this tool asks whether there is a gap after the ones you do attend.
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Written for Thought Club as general guidance, not medical advice. Free to read, print, and share.