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Criterion
Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Paper illustration for Eat the Frog
Operations
Eat the Frog
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
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.For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.The method protects energy and attention for the task that creates the largest progress and is often postponed.Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend30-90 min15-90 min daily90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
11-613-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption ListPriority Task, Completion Note, Daily FocusCoD Table, Prioritization Sequence
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
DecisionTreeOptions
PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
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