MyDecider

Lee | Jan 26, 2009 Productivity

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I don’t like losing sleep thinking about problems that need a decision. Lately, I’ve been contemplating my car. It’s getting up there in age and mileage (it’s a ’97). My wife and I noted our hefty expense bill this past year on a couple of fixes I had to have done. The dilemma: when is it time to let an older model car go? When I saw MyDecider by EdibleApps, I was intrigued by it’s concept: a tool to help you input criteria and weight it towards a decision. Hmmmm, this was appealing.

I like this app. It gets all the perplexing thoughts out of your head and on to a place where you can see things more clearly. The process is pretty straight forward. Here’s how it works. First, what’s the decision to be made? You enter on the first screen a question. This is the question you are trying to answer.

Next, at the bottom of the page, what are the criteria you need and value to make this decision? Cool! List them out. How important is money to the decision? What about gas mileage? What will future mechanic bills look like? etc.

As you are entering the criteria, each one has its own page where you can enter its importance to you on a scale from one to ten, ten being most important. Then, at the bottom of this page, each of your option choices are listed. You reorder the list according to how you rank each criteria. You work your way through each criteria and the app determines a percentage for every ranking you’ve made. Oila, you now have a decision.

Based on my input, it is time to move on to another vehicle. It is just too costly in parts and labor to justify the current value of the car. Hard pill to swallow. However, I realize this will be the right move. The MyDecider app helped me reach a good decision.

This type of approach is not for everyone. There are many different tools you can use to make a decision. If you tend to be a little anal like me, this can be a very thorough approach. Edible Apps has made a very good and useful tool with their MyDecider app. I think it’s worth a look-see.

Oh, by the way, MyDecider taught me two things: I need a new car and my wife is a very good and quick decider in her own right, without an iPhone app. We were in North Carolina recently, shopping for new bedroom furniture. We saw about twenty different sets. We narrowed it down to about three we were interested in. I proceeded to lay out all the options in MyDecider, trying to show off. My wife just chose. Bless her heart, she patiently waited as I sat for about five minutes inputting the options and our criteria. Yep! she was right. Moral of the story: some people won’t need this app; for the rest of us, there’s MyDecider.