# Decision Journal Template (10 min to start) Use a decision journal when: - you’re making repeated calls under uncertainty - you want to learn, not just justify - hindsight bias is making every past choice look “obvious” This is intentionally short. One entry can be 2–5 minutes. ## Template Date Context (one paragraph) Decision - What are we choosing? Intent - What are we optimising for? Options considered - A - B - C (optional) Assumptions - What must be true for this to work? Prediction - What do we expect will happen? - By when? Confidence - Low / Medium / High Reversibility - Two-way door / One-way door (use [[Two-Way Door vs One-Way Door (3 min)]]) Tripwires - What would make us stop / change course? Review - When will we revisit? - What evidence will we look at? ## Anti-theatre guardrail This is not a diary for perfect prose. The goal is to make your **thinking inspectable** so you can update it. ## See Also - [[Decision Review Cadence (15 min)]] - [[Decision Review One-Liner Log (2 min)]] - [[Decision Debt and Drift - Field Signals]]