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Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Nice tool! It would be nice to be able to go back and fix mistakes. For instance, on the first pass after entering something to consider I pressed Enter. I didn't even notice the "important" radio button, so the first choice got "somewhat important". It was actually super important and there was seemingly no way to fix it.

Thanks for this feedback! This seems like a great ability to have

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Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

#13
Here’s my output for trying to figure out what I am going to do for dinner:

    1. pizza: 54
    2. beer: 54
    3. italian: 45
    4. home cooked food: 44
    5. thai: 42
    6. mexican: 34
It’s fair to say the quality of the decisions this tool will enable is bounded by the ability of the user to make good decisions :-)

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

#14

Tip: if you input something and press "enter", it will reset the form. You should attach the event listener to the form's onSubmit, and not to the button's onClick.

fixed :) thanks for the feedback!

It'd also be nice if after submitting for one and selecting enter that it autofocuses on the input for the next question so you can start typing without clicking on it.

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Here’s my output for trying to figure out what I am going to do for dinner: 1. pizza: 54 2. beer: 54 3. italian: 45 4. home cooked food: 44 5. thai: 42 6. mexican: 34 It’s fair to say the quality of the decisions this tool will enable is bounded by the ability of the user to make good decisions :-)

I'd be curious to see your criteria. That seems like the biggest determinant of a quality decision, along with the ability to honestly evaluate them.

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Tip: if you input something and press "enter", it will reset the form. You should attach the event listener to the form's onSubmit, and not to the button's onClick.

Is there some book of best web dev practices where stuff like this is written down?

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Tip: if you input something and press "enter", it will reset the form. You should attach the event listener to the form's onSubmit, and not to the button's onClick.

or better yet, don't even use for things that don't submit a traditional old-style POST/GET to a server. if you're handling all your logic in javascript on the client side, OR doing everything with AJAJ [0], is unnecessary and you can handle things with button.onClick -- you get to program it just like any other GUI.

[0] most people use JSON not XML so i prefer to call it AJAJ not AJAX

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

#18

I love tools like this. Thanks for sharing it. It's nice to go through a process like that and feel extra-good about your decision. :-) It reminds me of a tool I used some time ago, the "Oracle" script at SimilarMinds.com. One difference is that the Oracle script used forced-choice based on baked-in global factors, even including how much a decision would affect your social standing, for example.

Thanks for sharing! I'm glad it's useful :) I originally made it because I wasn't feeling confident in a direction I was about to take in life. I wrote it all down in a spreadsheet and actually changed my mind after doing a similar process!

That's super cool. A friend was just asking me "how do you use numbers to weigh decisions again" and we laughed at the synchronicity when I sent her your link and she read the title. Thanks again.

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Tip: if you input something and press "enter", it will reset the form. You should attach the event listener to the form's onSubmit, and not to the button's onClick.

Is there some book of best web dev practices where stuff like this is written down?

No because the default behaviors not defined by a standard. Example: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/43170/backspace-shortcut-sho...
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