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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
A paper-based illustration representing Domain Storytelling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Domain Storytelling
A paper-based illustration representing Event Modeling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Event Modeling
Paper illustration of a Concept Map with concepts and labelled links
Knowledge Modeling
Concept Mapping
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.Domain Storytelling translates domain knowledge into a shared narrative of actors, objects, and workflows. It is especially useful when language, rules, and process understanding must be tightly connected.Event Modeling connects business workflows with commands, events, and views into one coherent mental model. It helps design behavior, UI, and technical slices from the same underlying logic.Concept Mapping arranges terms and relationships in a network that makes subject-matter connections tangible. It fits when a topic needs to be understood structurally rather than linearly.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend1-2 h2-6 h1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
12-82-81-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveDomain Story, Glossary Notes, Process NarrativeEvent Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read ModelsConcept Map, Relationship Labels, Knowledge Gaps
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
KnowledgeDomain-Driven DesignProcess
EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior
KnowledgeConceptsMappingSensemaking
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