Hello! If you don't see an answer to your question here, you can get in touch at notetoself@wnyc.org. We'll read all of them and respond as best we can, even if it takes a few days. We'll be updating this page as the questions come in.  1. Questions About Infomagical 2. Questions About Texting 3. Questions About the Team 4. Press Inquiries   QUESTIONS ABOUT INFOMAGICAL 1. What is Infomagical? Infomagical is a week of experiments designed to help you find focus and discover the magic of clear thinking. Think of it as a digital literacy campaign... on steroids.  2. What's wrong with information? Absolutely nothing. Information, learning, and curiosity are all great things – arguably the most important things for a functioning society/world/human race. But as studies are starting to show, new channels of information are messing with our ability to process what we consume. There’s pressure (social and personal) to make sure we never miss an email, status update, or that Netflix show that everyone is talking about. Eventually, we complain of feeling "maxed out" or say we "don’t have the bandwidth." Infomagical is a project about being better informed. We're fighting information overload, otherwise known as "infomania" – not information itself. We're also not here to judge which kinds of information you consider important. More on that later. 3. OK, but why should I sign up?  A life spent skimming is sad. When we purposefully choose and focus on the right information, information overload disappears. You’ll know it when you feel it – maybe you’ll get in touch with an old friend, or learn a new language, or think through your experimental graphic novel. Or maybe you'll watch a cute video that calms you down before you go to work in the morning. What's "right" depends on your goal. We don’t know if we can cure information overload/infomania, but it’s time to put our symptoms in check and a higher value on taking the time to synthesize, interpret, and reflect on the information we take in every day. This project puts what researchers do know to the test, and the larger our "sample group," the better the, ahem, information we'll have about the problem.  4. How does Infomagical work? You can sign up for the project at wnyc.org/infomagical. Each Monday, we'll start the project over with our first activity, and guide you through the sequence via either text messages or emails. Beforehand, we encourage you to listen to our big launch episode explaining the research behind our methodology. Then, during Challenge Week (Monday-Friday), we'll guide you through a series of challenges and exercises.  If you sign up to do the project via text, you’ll be part of our data set; we’ll be measuring what effect sticking to an information goal has on participants’ information overload, and seeing what sorts of lifestyle changes do to our stress levels. The sign up process will ask you to choose one of five goals ("information priorities") to serve as a touchstone throughout the week. You’ll get a daily assignment (“behavioral modification”) in the morning to keep you on track. Then a few – just a few – ti...