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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper illustration for Eat the Frog
Operations
Eat the Frog
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
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.The method protects energy and attention for the task that creates the largest progress and is often postponed.A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend15-90 min daily2-4 h60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
113-82-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchivePriority Task, Completion Note, Daily FocusFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved InjectionsConflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking
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