{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/save-a-decision-bundle-when-the-reasoning-may-matter-later",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0699",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Save a decision bundle when the reasoning may matter later",
  "summary": "The future question is often 'why did we choose this then?'",
  "kind": "template",
  "body": "For consequential reusable decisions, keep a compact bundle: question, considered options, key evidence, major uncertainty, decision, date and revisit trigger. Link to source notes rather than copying entire reports. Preserve enough context to reconstruct the mental model without preserving every browser tab.",
  "limits": [
    "Decision bundles should stay proportionate; trivial reversible choices do not need a mini-archive."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-personal-knowledge-refinding-and-maintenance"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-C65845DEE39A53E1",
    "RS-54CEA9242974EAB3"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A 2025 study of a personal web archive found that preserving consumed information and context could help participants re-find information and reconstruct prior sensemaking compared with browser-native features.",
      "source_id": "RS-C65845DEE39A53E1",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "This was one system and study design; it supports preserving useful context, not indiscriminate surveillance or capture-everything architectures.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    },
    {
      "claim": "Personal information management research frames the job as a lifecycle of acquiring or creating, keeping, organizing, maintaining, finding or re-finding, using and distributing information in support of future needs.",
      "source_id": "RS-54CEA9242974EAB3",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The lifecycle is descriptive and does not prescribe one folder, tagging or note-taking system.",
      "locator": "Abstract and overview"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "A decision is recorded but the evidence and alternatives that made it sensible disappear."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Decision bundles should stay proportionate; trivial reversible choices do not need a mini-archive."
  ],
  "example": "A technology choice can later be revisited when cost or platform support changes because the original assumptions are visible.",
  "check": "A future reviewer can distinguish a bad old decision from a reasonable decision made with old information.",
  "template": "Question: [q]. Options: [options]. Key evidence: [links]. Uncertainty: [unknown]. Decision: [choice]. Date: [date]. Revisit when: [trigger].",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-C65845DEE39A53E1",
      "title": "IRCHIVER: An Information-Centric Personal Web Archive for Revisiting Past Online Sensemaking Tasks",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1145/3698204.3716459"
    },
    {
      "id": "RS-54CEA9242974EAB3",
      "title": "Personal Information Management",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03291"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0699",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0690",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/keep-source-locator-and-access-date-beside-a-material-claim"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-5086A3A5AA1D243D",
      "title": "Keep knowledge so you can find, trust and reuse it later",
      "url": "/collections/keep-knowledge-so-you-can-find-trust-and-reuse-it-later"
    }
  ]
}