Decision maker
One outcome in 8
Drawn in your browser · nothing stored
Press the button and get a decision. It is not advice and it does not know anything about your situation; it is a way of ending a deliberation that has stopped being productive.
How to use it
The mechanism worth knowing is older than the tool. Randomising a choice does not tell you what to do, but your response to the answer usually does. The moment a coin lands, most people discover they were hoping for the other side. That is genuinely useful information and it is the reason to use something like this for a small decision. It is also the reason not to use it for a large one: a decision that matters deserves the deliberation, and delegating it to a random draw is a way of avoiding responsibility for it rather than making it.
Questions
For small ones, yes. Where to eat, which task first. For anything consequential, the answer is genuinely no. Use it to notice your preference, not to replace your judgement.
Because you had a preference you had not admitted to. That reaction is the most useful thing this tool produces.
Yes, drawn uniformly from the list.
Not on this page. The random picker takes any list you paste.
It is never typed anywhere, and nothing leaves the page regardless.