I have not heard of Memorist, but they describe themselves as: > Memorist allows you to create decisions, assign a decision-maker, set deadlines for decisions

I have not heard of Memorist, but they describe themselves as: > Memorist allows you to create decisions, assign a decision-maker, set deadlines for decisions and send reminders even on your phone. if so, they seem fairly useless for forcing documentation. There is no question of who decision maker is (person writing code), what the deadlines are (before code is written), no need for reminders (one cannot write code until they make a decision). What is needed is the pressure to document the decisions. And I don't think you can do it mechanically -- it is a matter of policy, culture, support and enforcement. It does not matter if this is JIRA, code comments, google docs, or special websites -- if there is no culture of writing down stuff, people will ignore every possible channel.