Decision Manager is a fun web tool that makes it easy to make complicated and social decisions. Decision Manager helps you:

• gather research on a project (e.g. picking a holiday house, deciding on a wedding dress)
• collaborate and get feedback from friends
• make and act upon a decision.

Social decision-making is when you make a decision in a social way. Rather than deciding on something on your own, you seek advice and feedback from friends, family, colleagues, or the general public. Decision Manager aims to make this process fun and easy.

Take our quick tutorial to be guided through steps to using Decision Manager. If you are still unsure, please let us know: we want to make Decision Manager as easy to use as possible.

Definitely not! Our aim is to make Decision Manager fun and easy to use. We believe simplicity is essential, and have built Decision Manager that way.

There are other sites that let you bookmark and share websites among friends, but only Decision Manager is tailored to helping you make and act upon a decision. In addition to pooling together websites, Decision Manager helps you sort, filter and analyse all the information you collect.

No catch. Decision Manager is free to use because we want to attract a loyal user base to the site. We have some relevant advertising on our site, and this is what keeps us in business. In the future we may offer more premium services at a fee, but this will be an optional extra.

Decision Manager will never use your personal details for financial gain, or send you spam. We want our business to be the kind you feel you can trust. Please review our privacy policy (link) for further details.

Your account is protected by username and password. You can choose to share your findings with others, but you are in control to make it private when you wish.

Decision Manager requires Internet Explorer, Safari, or Firefox. Decision Manager doesn't work with Internet Explorer 5.x. Other browsers may or may not work, but only the three listed are guaranteed compatible.

Both do exactly the same, it just depends what you would prefer. A button requires a quick install and becomes part of your browser, like the Back and Home buttons. A bookmark is added to your browser's bookmarks toolbar without having to download or install an application. It's ideal if you can't install things on a corporate computer, but doesn't look as swish.

There are two buttons/bookmarks. The first is called 'Skim this!', which grabs information from the site you are interested in (titles, descriptions, photos) plus lets you add extra relevant information. The second button/bookmark is called 'My projects', which takes you straight to the web page with all your Decision Manager projects .

You will be prompted during account creation. If you skipped this step it can be done later by clicking the 'Get the Skimmer' link on your project page, or by going to the Tools menu and choosing the 'Get the Skimmer' sub-menu.

Use the bookmarks (instead of the buttons) which require no installation (see above questions).

To remove a button, go to your browser's Tools menu, and select Extensions (on Windows) or Add-ons (on Mac). From here you can uninstall the buttons from your browser. To remove bookmarks, just right-click on them and select 'Delete'.

A project is how we refer to any decision you need to make, or research you need to do e.g. choosing a holiday house, researching which TV to buy or finding a venue for your wedding.

Login to Decision Manager and click on 'Start a project'. Here you can enter all the information about your project, like the type of decision and the decision-making criteria. Once you have finished, Decision Manager will create your own project webpage and you can begin your search process.

When you find a webpage with something you like on it, click the 'Skim this!' bookmark or button on your browser (depending on which version you installed). You will be asked to login if you aren't already, and then the Skimmer will automatically extract any title, description and image from the page. You can then refine the selection by choosing the one that is best for you, or entering your own.

A Decision Manager is our term for how we display the skimmed content. It contains a title, description, image and decision-making criteria. It can also contain the feedback collectors you have picked for your project eg. rating, ranking, polling and comments. Displaying your options like this is the perfect way to help you make a decision.

You can install two buttons/bookmarks into your browser: one of them is called 'My projects' and will take you straight to where your projects are..

Decision Manager offers you three ways to manage your findings:

1. Keep it private - no one but yourself will have access
2. Make it public - anyone can access and give feedback
3. Shared - only people you invite will be able to access and give feedback

You can set your sharing status on the My projects page, or by clicking the Edit project button for your project.

If it's a shared project, yes. We will need to authenticate the people we give access to your site, so they will need to register using the same email address you used to email them. If it is a public project, your friends can still visit the site but they won't require an account to view it. Of course, this also means anyone else can view your project and contribute to it.

You will have been sent an email inviting you to visit their project page. Simply click on the link in the email, login, and you will be taken to their project page.

The project will also appear in your 'My projects' page under the heading 'Friends projects'.