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One self-contained HTML file, a quick start, an evidence record and a checksum manifest. No install, account or subscription.The tool works offline and makes no network requests. The publisher receives no copy of what you enter. Records stay in this browser, but browser storage is not encrypted or protected from other people using the same browser profile.Pay once for this version and reuse the downloaded file indefinitely. Future major versions and continuing support are not included unless they are stated separately.Two doors on one record: a worry about something that has not happened yet, and a decision you keep arguing both ways.For a worry: name it, say when you will know, and guess two things separately, how likely it is and how bad it would really be, each with how sure you are.A guess that is locked once it is saved, so the record shows what you expected and not what you remember expecting.No timer anywhere. A worry stays open for as long as it takes, and you record what happened whenever you come back.For a decision: write the story you keep telling yourself, write it again as a plain record, and underline every claim that appears in only one of the two.A completion that follows the practice's own condition: one claim moved back to an assumption, and one next question changed.Two readbacks kept apart, one for each door, because only one of them has a guess in it, and neither is ever a score, a streak or a grade.Your own record broken down by how likely you called it, by how bad it turned out against the guess, by what it was about, and by whether the pattern has moved, each shown only once there is enough to say.The words of both practices this comes from, Prediction Before Action and Two Versions of the Story in The Evidence-Based Life, quoted in the tool with a link. You do not need the book.Five short optional lessons in a chat between Heron and EBL, each with Heron's read of your own record.A screen that follows the clock and warms when you write something into the record, with a control to hold the tone and one to keep it dim.Export and import, so you can back up or move your record whenever you want, and a printable record.Works on one device at a time. Clearing your browser's site data clears it, so export a backup if you want to keep it.
What It Is For
A private record for a worry about something that has not happened yet. Name it, say when you will know, and guess two things separately: how likely it is and how bad it would really be. The guess locks when you save it, and when the moment comes you record what actually happened. A secondary Both sides mode helps with a decision you keep re-arguing: write the story, write the plain record, and underline what appears in only one version. The two records stay separate. The tool works offline, has no account and makes no network requests.
Intended for: Anyone who finds a worry keeps circling back to the same worst case, or a decision keeps getting re-argued instead of settled, and who would rather see what their own record says than keep going round.
What Exists Behind This Page
This preview is tied to the built edition and its recorded release state. It is not a promise that the product is already available or that using it guarantees the outcome.
- It never sends anything anywhere: there is no account, no sign-up and no network request, so every worry and decision you type stays in your browser, and there is no service behind it that could change how your data is handled later
- A saved guess cannot be edited, so the record never drifts to match what happened
- It asks how likely and, separately, how bad, because those are two different questions and a single worry slider cannot tell them apart
- The two doors are counted separately and never added together, because a decision written both ways has no guess in it to be close to
- Nothing in it reads what you have written to work anything out about you, and the line about where to get help is the same words for everyone who sees it
- It is a working version of two named practices, with both practices' own words quoted, and it does not need the book to use it
- 1 prepared edition
- 3 inspectable customer-page previews
- 11 named sources with stated use and transfer limits
Claims boundary: This is a personal record of your own guesses and your own two versions. It is not an assessment, it is not therapy and it is not a substitute for it, it is not medical advice, and it does not replace professional support. It does not say that keeping the record will make a worry smaller or a decision easier. It never reads what you have written to decide anything about you.
Three Decisions It Helps You Make
- 01
What observable evidence would justify confidence in this specific situation?
- 02
What decision is actually being made, by whom and by when?
- 03
Does this need a working aid, human feedback or qualified support?
Price and Package
What this edition does not promise
- This is a personal record of your own guesses and your own two versions. It is not an assessment, it is not therapy and it is not a substitute for it, it is not medical advice, and it does not replace professional support. It does not say that keeping the record will make a worry smaller or a decision easier. It never reads what you have written to decide anything about you.
- A working aid, not a guarantee of a commercial, career or personal outcome.
- It does not replace legal, regulatory, clinical, financial or employer-specific advice.
- Human release review and fulfilment testing remain required.
Source Corpus Acknowledged
The customer evidence record names each source, its design use, transfer limit and review requirement. Sources inform the design and do not endorse Stratogenic or validate the finished tool.
11 named sources and transfer limits
- LaFreniere and Newman, Exposing Worry's Deceit: Percentage of Untrue Worries in Generalized Anxiety Disorder Treatment (Behavior Therapy, 51(3), 413-423, 2020) — Informed the product design. Limit: Review again before material use.
- LaFreniere and Newman, The impact of uncontrollability beliefs and thought-related distress on ecological momentary interventions for generalized anxiety disorder: A moderated mediation model (Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 66, article 102113, 2019) — Informed the product design. Limit: Review again before material use.
- Fischhoff, Hindsight is not equal to foresight: The effect of outcome knowledge on judgment under uncertainty (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1(3), 288-299, 1975) — Informed the product design. Limit: Review again before material use.
- Nelson and Hayes, Theoretical explanations for reactivity in self-monitoring (Behavior Modification, 5(1), 3-14, 1981) — Informed the product design. Limit: Review again before material use.
- The Evidence-Based Life, Prediction Before Action (chapter 6) and Two Versions of the Story (chapter 4), the two practices this tool adapts — Informed the product design. Limit: Review again before material use.
- Decatastrophizing, as a general technique of cognitive behavioural therapy (probability and cost of a feared outcome treated as separate, commonly conflated judgements) — Informed the product design. Limit: Review again before material use.
- Stratogenic editorial judgement: the words for likelihood and cost, the thresholds of three, five and ten entries, the two separate readbacks, and the fact that triggers the signpost beside a result — Informed the product design. Limit: Review again before material use.
- Samaritans — Informed the product design. Limit: Review again before material use.
- NHS talking therapies for anxiety and depression: self-referral guidance — Informed the product design. Limit: Review again before material use.
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 — Informed the product design. Limit: Review again before material use.
- OWASP HTML5 Security Cheat Sheet — Informed the product design. Limit: Review again before material use.
Corpus review: 2026-09-22. Provider documentation is operational guidance, not independent validation or endorsement.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is What If...??
What If...? is interactive browser tool designed to help anyone who finds a worry keeps circling back to the same worst case, or a decision keeps getting re-argued instead of settled, and who would rather see what their own record says than keep going round. a private record for a worry about something that has not happened yet. Name it, say when you will know, and guess two things separately: how likely it is and how bad it would really be. The guess locks when you save it, and when the moment comes you record what actually happened. A secondary Both sides mode helps with a decision you keep re-arguing: write the story, write the plain record, and underline what appears in only one version. The two records stay separate. The tool works offline, has no account and makes no network requests.
What do I receive with What If...??
One self-contained HTML file, a quick start, an evidence record and a checksum manifest. No install, account or subscription.The tool works offline and makes no network requests. The publisher receives no copy of what you enter. Records stay in this browser, but browser storage is not encrypted or protected from other people using the same browser profile.Pay once for this version and reuse the downloaded file indefinitely. Future major versions and continuing support are not included unless they are stated separately.Two doors on one record: a worry about something that has not happened yet, and a decision you keep arguing both ways.For a worry: name it, say when you will know, and guess two things separately, how likely it is and how bad it would really be, each with how sure you are.A guess that is locked once it is saved, so the record shows what you expected and not what you remember expecting.No timer anywhere. A worry stays open for as long as it takes, and you record what happened whenever you come back.For a decision: write the story you keep telling yourself, write it again as a plain record, and underline every claim that appears in only one of the two.A completion that follows the practice's own condition: one claim moved back to an assumption, and one next question changed.Two readbacks kept apart, one for each door, because only one of them has a guess in it, and neither is ever a score, a streak or a grade.Your own record broken down by how likely you called it, by how bad it turned out against the guess, by what it was about, and by whether the pattern has moved, each shown only once there is enough to say.The words of both practices this comes from, Prediction Before Action and Two Versions of the Story in The Evidence-Based Life, quoted in the tool with a link. You do not need the book.Five short optional lessons in a chat between Heron and EBL, each with Heron's read of your own record.A screen that follows the clock and warms when you write something into the record, with a control to hold the tone and one to keep it dim.Export and import, so you can back up or move your record whenever you want, and a printable record.Works on one device at a time. Clearing your browser's site data clears it, so export a backup if you want to keep it.
Can I buy or download What If...? now?
No. This is a forthcoming preview. Checkout and delivery stay disabled until named human approval and fulfilment checks are recorded.
