Alternatives to ADR tools when decisions live across many tools
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Architecture decision records are great, and you should write them. But ADR tooling shares one assumption: that a decision lives in one file and stays there. If your real decisions live across Slack, GitHub, Jira and Confluence and keep changing, you'll eventually want something that fits that reality. Here are the alternatives and how they compare.
If you haven't picked an ADR tool yet, start with ADR tools compared; this piece is about what comes after.