Decision Shelf

iPhone / Productivité

Decision Shelf is for people who end meetings with a clear outcome and still watch that outcome dissolve in chat two weeks later. It is built for team leads, project managers, operations folks, and anyone who owns outcomes—not for managing every task in your life, but for capturing the decisions that deserve a shelf life: what we agreed, who owns the interpretation, and when we will sanity-check it again.

Instead of another generic notes app, Decision Shelf centers every entry on a decision record: a short title, the decision owner, when it was made, optional context, and a revisit date that turns an informal “we will revisit” into something visible on a timeline. You can scan what is still open, what is coming up for review, and what has been closed with a short outcome note. The point is not to nag you with habits or streaks; the point is to prevent “zombie decisions” that quietly expire in practice while everyone still pretends they are true.

Here are three concrete ways people use it. First, you run a planning session and capture three decisions with different revisit dates. You open Decision Shelf, tap New Decision, enter the title and owner, set a revisit date that matches your next checkpoint, and save. The Active list immediately shows the new row with a due badge, and the Upcoming view sorts by what needs attention soonest—so your next standup starts with a real list, not memory.

Second, you inherit a project mid-flight and need to know what is still considered true. You open a decision, read the context you (or a teammate) wrote, and tap Mark Reviewed when you validate it. If reality changed, you update the notes, adjust the revisit date, or close it with a one-line outcome. The screen changes right away: the status chip updates, dates refresh, and archived items move out of your active mental load.

Third, you use Decision Shelf as a lightweight governance tool for small teams without buying heavyweight software. You keep decisions short, consistent, and time-bounded. When someone asks “did we decide that?” you have a single place to point to, with dates that explain whether the decision is fresh, stale, or explicitly retired.

What makes Decision Shelf different from “yet another productivity tracker” is the revisit contract: every meaningful entry is designed to age. You are not collecting endless lists; you are managing the half-life of agreements. The interface stays calm and readable, optimized for quick capture after a call and fast scanning before the next one.

You will find sensible defaults on first launch so you can understand the product in seconds, and you can export your judgment workflow without turning productivity into a game. If your work runs on commitments that should survive the week, Decision Shelf helps them survive reality.