# Weigh a decision

> Map the questions behind a choice, forecast them and read which option they favor.

Part of the Prolepsia docs: Explore and decide.
Video: [Weigh a decision](https://app.prolepsia.com/docs/videos/decisions.mp4), 1:39, with [captions](https://app.prolepsia.com/docs/videos/decisions.vtt).
This guide as a web page: https://app.prolepsia.com/docs/decisions

## Steps

1. Choose Decisions in the top bar, then New decision.
2. Describe your situation by typing or speaking, and answer the questions Prolepsia asks.
3. When it has what it needs, choose Prepare decisions.
4. Check the title, the context, the date and the options, then choose Create decision.
5. On the map, use Keep, Edit or Discard on each draft question. Find more questions asks for more.
6. Choose Start forecasts. Check the price and your balance, then confirm.
7. Open Summary to see how each option fares and which one leads.
8. Use Notes to steer every forecast on the map, and Conditions to rerun questions when something happens.
9. Turn on Live mode to keep the map up to date within a monthly credit cap.
10. Share the decision with your organization, talk it through in Discussion, and choose Archive when you have decided.

## Good to know

- Building the map costs no credits. Forecasting the questions does, and you see the price before anything starts.

## What the video says

Decisions help when you face a choice. A decision holds two to four options, and a map of the questions that bear on them. Choose New decision, and describe your situation by typing or speaking. You do not need to know your options yet. Prolepsia asks what it needs to know. Answer its questions. When it has enough, it says so, and you choose Prepare decisions. Check the title, the context, the date and the options, then choose Create decision. Prolepsia then looks for questions to put on the map. Here is that decision a little later. Each card on the map is a question, with its latest forecast and the option it bears on. Prolepsia proposes more questions as drafts. Keep the ones that matter, edit them, or discard the rest. Find more questions asks for another round. Start forecasts prices every question on the map first. You see the total in credits and your balance, and nothing starts until you confirm. When the forecasts finish, the summary weighs each option against them and names the leading option. The option chips at the top show the same reading. Notes steer every forecast on the map. Conditions are sentences that Prolepsia checks against the news, so it can rerun questions when one comes true. Live mode keeps every question on the map up to date, within a monthly credit cap that you set. Share the decision with your organization, talk it through in Discussion, and archive it once you have decided.

## Links

- [Open Decisions](https://app.prolepsia.com/decisions)

Every Prolepsia guide is listed at https://app.prolepsia.com/llms.txt.