Which Digital Detox Style Fits You?

Thank you for your message. I am currently away from my phone until further notice, or until roughly eleven minutes from now, whichever comes first. During this time I will not be checking email, refreshing the weather app or watching a stranger restore a rusty frying pan at two in the morning. For urgent matters, please contact a tree. For less urgent matters, write me a letter, preferably on nice paper.

Most of us have composed some version of that reply in our heads. The trick is finding a detox style that fits the way you live, instead of one that collapses by Tuesday lunch. Some people need the full cabin in the woods with no signal and a suspicious amount of firewood. Some need rules, timers and a phone curfew at nine. Some do best swapping the screen for something they can hold, like knitting needles or a film camera. And some simply need friends around a table, phones stacked in a basket, laughing at something that will never be posted.

Fifteen questions about notifications, bedtime scrolling, boredom and missing chargers will find your ideal break.

I will respond to your results upon my return. Take the quiz now.