A decision journal for iPhone
Every decision,
on the record.
You make a hard call, then forget why. Whelmed keeps the reasoning — the options you weighed, what actually mattered, and how sure you were. Come back in six months and find out whether you were right.
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The method
Four steps,
then patience.
Whelmed doesn't decide for you. It makes you write the decision down properly, so that later there's something to learn from.
- 01
Frame it
Name the decision and the options you're genuinely choosing between. Two is usually enough. Writing them down is already most of the work.
- 02
Say what matters
List the criteria the choice actually turns on — cost, time, who it affects. Not a wish list. The three or four things you'd defend out loud.
- 03
Commit, and rate it
Pick one and put a number on how sure you are. The number is the point: it's what makes hindsight worth anything later.
- 04
Come back to it
Weeks or months on, reopen the record. Was the 80% call an 80% call? Do that enough times and your own patterns stop being invisible.
Inside the app
Four tabs. No dashboard.
- Decisions
- Everything you've logged, searchable by decision, criteria or option. Status, confidence and category on every row.
- Journal
- The thinking around a call, kept separately from the call itself — the doubts and the second thoughts worth re-reading later.
- Analytics
- Your record over time. Where your confidence runs ahead of your results, and which kinds of decisions you sit on longest.
- Learn
- Short, practical pieces on how decisions go wrong — and how to set them up so they go wrong less often.
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