Voting Window & Decision Journal

When to use this

• An action has opened and you want a dated record from first read to published rationale.
• You are working several actions at once and need to see which deadlines are closest.
• You expect to change your mind and want the change visible rather than hidden.

When NOT to use this

• The vote has already closed and you are reconstructing reasoning from memory. Write a short note instead and mark it as retrospective.
• You want a public commentary thread. This is a working record; publish the rationale separately.

What you'll need

• The action identifier and the submission date
• The voting deadline or expiry epoch, read from chain or a governance explorer
• Your intake brief or first-read notes
• Any outstanding questions already sent to the proposer

Estimated completion time

25 minutes

Working time for one governance action, assuming the inputs listed here are already to hand.

How to interpret the result

• A journal with a single entry made on voting day is a decision without a process. That is worth noticing about your own practice.
• Confidence that never moves usually means the research was not capable of changing the answer. Check whether your questions were falsifiable.
• Refused questions are evidence. A pattern of refusal from a proposer belongs in the rationale, stated as fact rather than as motive.

Limitations

• The journal records your reasoning, not its correctness. A well-documented decision can still turn out wrong.
• Deadlines and epoch boundaries must be read from chain. Any date copied from a summary can be stale.
• This is a private working record until you choose to publish. Do not include anything you would not stand behind in public.