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Criterion
Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration for 3-Circle Venn Diagram
Facilitation
3-Circle Venn Diagram
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Purposedifferent
The PARA Method organizes knowledge into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. It creates order when digital notes, files, and tasks no longer cleanly fit current work.ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.When three perspectives matter at the same time, a Three-Circle Venn Diagram shows the overlaps and remainders precisely. It makes visible where shared effect arises and where only a partial perspective applies.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional15-45 min1-2 h Setup, laufend
Participantsdifferent
1Designers, developers as users, and facilitation2-81
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchivePrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsVenn Diagram, Overlap Notes, DifferentiatorsAction Lists, Project List, Review Routine
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
ComparisonFacilitationAlignment
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
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