Path - Help Me Decide

As someone trained to make decisions for large companies, I find this a great, quick, and easy way to make decisions in your life. It forces you to consider outcomes, alternatives, and impact - exactly the criteria you should - when making a decision. It presents each in a step-by-step and easy way. The end result is a visualization that helps understand why the preferred alternative best achieves the desired outcomes, including seeing how each alternative is influenced by the impacts on your life/company. I have two suggestions that would take this from being useful to being a go-to tool for even the most important decisions: 1) When setting the “aspects of your life this impacts”, the app should let you set as an “importance” value as 1-10 scale (low to high want) or “must”. If you choose it as a must, then any alternative/choice that doesn’t meet that should not be scored at all. As is, the app treats each of these as being equally important to the final decision. In reality, it’s a mix of low/med/high wants and musts. It’s a useful way to further eliminate/distinguish alternatives. 2) The final visualization should be the sum of the products of how impactful each choice is (already input) AND the importance of each (from # 1 above). With these additions, the final output would reflect the process known as a Decision Analysis.

It’s one of the very few apps that start without asking for your email, name, address and life history. The concept is simple but nicely executed.