Almost everyone has information overload, but some have it a lot more than others.

The first thing we wanted to check in the survey was how many people are experiencing information overload. We asked about that in a couple of ways - what info overload-related problems do they run into, and how do they feel in general about the flow of information through their lives.

Let’s start with the problems.

We asked how often people experience four situations:

You can’t find a document that you know you stored somewhere.
You can’t find something you saw on the web.
You don’t know the context for a meeting you’re about to go into, and…
You don’t remember your context with a person.

Everyone has those problems sometimes. But about half of the people surveyed said they have one or more of those problems several times a week, and fifteen percent have at least one of the problems daily.

Are those big percentages or small ones? This is one of those “glass is half full” situations where you could make an argument in either direction. But from my perspective as a product guy, I think it means there is a large group of people who have a problem that needs to be solved.

How often do you encounter one of the four problems?

Repost from Zekira Weblog.