How It Works

Prioritize Me! uses the method of "forced choice prioritization" to require the user to rank the items they enter two at a time, asking which they prefer over the other. This prevents analysis paralysis in decision making, and can help quickly reveal which choices the user truly prefers.

Is This Safe? Secure?

To keep things simple, Prioritize Me! doesn't do any of its prioritizing work on any server — it's all done on your phone or desktop machine in JavaScript. This means you can prioritize whatever you feel like prioritizing, and that data will never get sent anywhere.. It's not even stored on your phone anywhere, so if you need your results when you're done, write them down somewhere.

What It Works On

I've personally tested Prioritize Me! on Iris Browser, iPhone, Firefox, Safari, and Konqueror. Others have reported that it works great on Android, modern versions of Opera Mobile, and Skyfire. If it works in your mobile or desktop browser, let me know and I'll add it to the list!

Mad Props

Prioritize Me! would not exist were it not for the two original Web-based forced choice prioritization tools that I drew inspiration from:

• The CNN Money Prioritizer, the original and still a great tool. Has a limit of 15 items, and it breaks ties.
• The Idea Sandbox Prioritizer, which gives unlimited options and looks pretty (and works great on desktop browsers).

Additionally, I used the iUI iPhone User Interface Library and TestCase JavaScript Testing Library for building the user interface and test cases, respectively. I used Iris Browser to test the mobile functionality.

Prioritize Me! is © 2009 John Bintz (john [at] coswellproductions [dot] com)