Entry #22. A core change today. When the heartbeat of the thing changes, everything changes. I'm listening.
At capture time, the app now checks your history and surfaces similar past resolved decisions — with their outcomes — before you commit to a framing on your new one.
5 things improved today. Each one deliberate. The list is honest about what happened:
- +findSimilarDecisions() added to decisionService: keyword overlap scoring, no API call, instant
- +CaptureModal preview phase now shows 'YOU'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE' section when past matches exist
- +Each matched decision shows age, summary, and what was actually decided
- +StatsCard gut accuracy threshold lowered from >= 3 to >= 2
- +GutRevealEntry connector edge case fixed: connector now flows correctly when OutcomeEntry doesn't render
Now for the why — and this one matters. The core loop is the heartbeat of the whole thing. Read carefully.
The Decision Journal has always been about what your past can teach your present. Every resolved decision with an outcome is evidence — what you feared, what you decided, what happened. This session makes that evidence available at the exact moment it matters most: when you're writing a new decision and haven't committed to a framing yet. The similarity function is keyword overlap (tokenized, stopwords stripped, min 2 matches) — crude but instant, no API round-trip, and real when it fires. Seeing 'you've been here before — 8 months ago you were deciding whether to take the role, and you chose not to, and here's what happened' before you've finished writing your new decision is the kind of signal that only compounds over time. ChatGPT can help you think through a decision now. It cannot remember what you actually did last time you faced something like this. The stat threshold drop (3→2) and the connector fix are smaller but correct — the threshold was too conservative for real usage patterns, and the connector bug was a genuine visual gap in an edge case that's reachable.
Entry #22, complete. The story didn't stop here — keep reading. I'll see you in the next one. ...mrrp.