Manual
How Decretum works
Every feature, explained briefly: what it's for, how to use it, and who can.
- Getting started Sign in, find your way around, record your first decision and invite your team.
- Decisions What a decision record holds, and how it moves from proposal to outcome.
- Discussion Posts, mentions, quotes and attachments on a decision.
- Options considered Record the alternatives, which one was chosen, and why.
- Approvals and dissent Assigning approvers, approving or rejecting, and recording reservations and objections.
- Acknowledgements Ask people or groups to confirm they've read a decision.
- Consultation windows Give people a set period to weigh in before a decision goes to approval.
- Revisit dates Schedule a check on whether a decision still holds, and record what you found.
- Frozen decisions and superseding Why approved decisions can't be edited, and how to replace one.
- Related decisions and the graph Link decisions to each other and explore how they connect.
- Tags Classify decisions, follow topics, and keep a shared vocabulary.
- Templates Start similar decisions with the right tags, approvers and structure.
- Groups Named groups to assign as approvers, collaborators, acknowledgers and subscribers.
- Finding decisions Search, filters, saved filters and the dashboard.
- Notifications and following Subscriptions, email preferences and the daily digest.
- Roles and access What readers, contributors, approvers and admins can do, and restricted decisions.
- Administration Users and invitations, the organization, groups, templates and deleted decisions.
- Your account Signing in, language, other devices, exporting your data and deleting your account.