For individual decision-makers

Make the decision. Keep the lesson.

Decision journal software is most useful when you return to the record. Capture your evidence, assumptions, options, forecast, and confidence before hindsight changes the story. Set a Reality Date to compare those expectations with what actually happens.

The Reality Skill Loop

Set a Reality Date. Give experience a chance to become useful learning.

LookBearingsNext moveReality check

Start simply. Go deeper when it helps.

Basic and Extended are two views of the same decision. Switch views with your work intact.

Basic · clarity and a next step

Describe the situation in your own words. Review a first look, other frames and possible routes. Accept what helps, choose a decision and focus on the current step.

  • A few useful perspectives at a time
  • Your chosen step and expected signal
  • A quick observation when reality responds

Extended · room for the difficult parts

Explore the complete workspace when the stakes or uncertainty call for it: guided orientation, the full set of bearings, maps, evidence, assumptions and deeper tools.

  • Examine the framing before choosing a route
  • Connect alternatives, evidence and dependencies
  • Keep the same decision, steps and outcome history

Both views are available for personal work. Company access adds shared decision rights, participation and oversight; AI availability and account limits still apply.

Explore a personal decision →

The Reality Skill Loop

A useful decision includes a way to find out whether it is working. Keep the expectation beside the observation, then choose the next move with the new facts.

  1. Look
  2. Bearings
  3. Next move
  4. Reality check

Choose your next move, say what you expect to observe, and record what happened. A deviation can lead to a bounded correction. Earlier expectations and decisions stay in the history so you can see what changed and why.

Telegram brings you back to the next useful action.

Connect your Telegram account in the app and choose your notification preferences. Dated step reminders offer quick replies to mark a step done, explain a difficulty or move its date, with a link back to the decision. Opted-in checkpoint alerts bring you back to record an update; company reminders also follow workspace policy.

Checkpoint alerts use a generic prompt and a sign-in link. Step reminders can include the decision title, your step and its completion condition. You can disconnect Telegram in the app.

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For a company decision

Keep the team’s expectation beside the real result.

A company record can preserve independent views, the owner’s rationale, accepted action ownership and the checkpoint. When the result arrives, the owner and participants can add observations and adjust course without rewriting what they originally expected.

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Before

Give your expectations something concrete to test.

Describe the situation, distinguish observations from interpretations, compare real options, and state what you expect to happen with an honest level of confidence.

  • Situation and stakes
  • Evidence and assumptions
  • Options considered
  • Forecast and confidence
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At commitment

Set a Reality Date.

Choose when there should be enough information to review the outcome. Commit the decision, rationale, intended action, and Reality Date as a fixed point of reference. Record what would make you reconsider sooner so a review date does not become a reason to ignore new evidence.

  • Committed decision record
  • Rationale at the time
  • Next action
  • Reality Date
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After

Review process separately from outcome.

A good process can produce a bad outcome and a weak process can get lucky. Compare expectations with events: what did you see clearly, which assumption needs revisiting, and what was outside your control? Examine both the reasoning and the result before deciding what to carry forward.

  • Actual outcome
  • Expectation gap
  • Process review
  • Lessons for next time

After the decision

Don’t wait for the outcome review to notice a change of course.

Keep the agreed result visible between commitment and the Reality Date. Checkpoints and quick updates help people surface problems while there is still time to respond.

  1. Next move
  2. Check in
  3. Surface concerns
  4. Adjust course
  5. Review
Explore follow-through in the demo
Actual app screen · fictional sample company and prepared events, not a customer result.
  • Set dated checkpoints before the final review, or raise a concern when something changes.
  • Record a quick check-in: on course, drifting, off course, or unable to assess. Explain what changed and request leadership help when needed.
  • The owner side can continue, ask for clarification, or open a linked course review without rewriting the original commitment.
  • Find outstanding updates in the relevant attention lists, review agenda and calendar feed. Connect Telegram and opt into checkpoint notifications to return through a private access-checked link.
Explore follow-through in the demo →

Personal checkpoints are included in free access. Company and advisor oversight follows existing permissions. Telegram checkpoint alerts require a connected account and reminder preferences; company delivery also follows workspace policy. Updates are human-reported. Ordinary check-ins show their audience and are separate from protected feedback.

More ways to reach a useful decision

Capture first. Organize when ready.

Write or paste your information without classifying every sentence. Optional AI organization proposes statements and labels; you review what to accept.

Personal and Company · AI availability and usage limits apply.
Find a better route, systematically.

Step back from a proposed solution to the goal, separate conflicting requirements, or turn an objection into a design condition. Save a candidate before deliberately adopting it as an option.

Personal and Company · the guided exploration itself makes no AI calls.
Keep unfinished writing.

Supported signed-in writing forms save private drafts while you type. Saving a draft does not submit, share, commit or send the writing to AI.

Requires a working connection for server saves; check the save status. Guest forms and uploads have different limits.
Hear beyond the core team.

wider consultation gathers input from 8–100 invited company members without expanding the 2–7-person Team Room or transferring decision authority. Track unresolved contributions and owner responses.

Company workflow · named or anonymous-to-audience input, within its access rules.
Protect dissent, with accountable moderation.

Authorized participants can use protected feedback and later choose to reveal authorship. Eligible moderators can hide abusive content with a recorded reason and a reconsideration path.

The company audience sees the concern without its author’s name. The author can choose to reveal it later; full privacy boundaries remain on the Security page.
See what needs your advice.

Advisors can review current requests, client replies and follow-up requests across authorized engagements. Follow-through attention is limited to explicitly shared cases.

Advisor access requires admission and current client authorization; browsing the demo grants neither.

Questions, answered

What people usually want to know.

Why use decision journal software instead of a document?

A document can store notes, but Reality Skill provides a consistent decision structure, a committed record, a Reality Date, and an explicit outcome-review loop.

What kinds of decisions fit a decision journal?

It is most useful when the decision is consequential, uncertain, repeatable, or likely to teach you something after the result becomes visible.

What is a Reality Date?

A Reality Date is the date you choose to return to a committed decision and compare your forecast with the actual outcome. It creates a specific opportunity to review assumptions, distinguish reasoning from luck, and identify what to consider next time.

Your first company decision

Check one problem before the next fix.

Bring one recurring problem. The first assisted checks are coordinated by hand; participation, scope and dates are agreed before work starts. You keep the decision.

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