Decision Journal CLI 📓

🎯 Capture

Log decisions with context, alternatives considered, and confidence levels. Never second-guess your past self again.

🔍 Analyze

Pattern matching across your decision history reveals biases, tracks win rates, and surfaces what actually works.

📈 Improve

Build a decision playbook from real data. Learn which frameworks lead to better outcomes over time.

🔒 Private

Local-first storage. Your decisions, your data. JSON-backed with zero cloud dependencies.

Decision Journal — bash

$ decide log "Hire senior dev vs contractor"

✓ Decision logged: #47 — 2026-02-14 19:42

$ decide add-context --decision 47 --context "Team velocity dropping, need permanent solution"

✓ Context added

$ decide patterns --timeframe 90d

Pattern Analysis (Last 90 days) ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Pattern │ Count │ Win Rate │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Hiring decisions │ 12 │ 75% │ │ Tech stack choices │ 8 │ 62% │ │ Feature prioritization│ 24 │ 58% │ │ Partnership deals │ 4 │ 100% │ └─────────────────────────────────────────┘ 💡 Insight: Partnership deals have highest win rate Consider more collaborative opportunities

$ decide review --decision 47

Decision #47 Review (6 months later) Outcome: Hired senior dev — Turned out great Actual vs Expected: +20% better team velocity Tag: hiring, senior-hire Confidence at time: 70% → Actual: 85%

Commands

decide log

Log a new decision with title

decide review

Review past decisions and outcomes

decide patterns

Analyze patterns in your decision history

decide tag

Add tags for categorization

decide context

Add context to any decision

decide export

Export decisions to JSON/CSV

Pattern Matching Engine

Our pattern matching engine analyzes your decision history across multiple dimensions: time-based patterns, tag correlations, confidence calibration, and outcome tracking. Discover what's working and what isn't.

npm install -g decision-journal