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Free research resource
Stop relying on your future self to remember why you made a research decision
The Research Decision Log gives you a simple way to capture the reasoning behind important decisions as your project evolves so you can understand, explain and defend those decisions later.
What's included
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Know what decisions are worth documenting
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Capture the reasoning, not just the outcome
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Record changes to your original research plan
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Create a clear record you can refer back to throughout your project
You'll make hundreds of decisions during a research project
Some will seem obvious at the time.
But months later, you may struggle to remember the reasoning behind them.
The reasoning might be buried in meeting notes, emails, messages, or your memory. The decision log gives you one place to capture the decisions that matter.
The problem
A simple tool for documenting the decisions behind your research
What's inside
7-page PDF guide
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Which decisions are worth documenting
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What information to capture
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How to document changes to your original plan
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What makes a useful decision-log entry
Excel template
Decision Log
Decision → Context → Rationale → Alternatives → Impact
Protocol Changes
Original research plan → What changed? → Why did it change? → How was the decision made? → What was the impact?
Make your research decisions easier to understand later
Why use this resource
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Remember why decisions were made
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Explain changes to your methods or protocol
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Trace how your research evolved
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Defend the reasoning behind important research decisions
You don't need to document everything.
Just the decisions that could affect your data, methods, analysis or interpretation.
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