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Criterion
Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
EventStorming on a long working surface: colored event cards form a business flow, friction points are marked, and a boundary separates different areas of responsibility.
Domain Modeling
EventStorming
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration for Eat the Frog
Operations
Eat the Frog
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.When a domain consists of many events, rules, and states, it creates a shared modeling space for the team. It bundles language, flows, and boundaries before domain knowledge fragments into siloed views.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.The method protects energy and attention for the task that creates the largest progress and is often postponed.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend2-8 h1-2 h Setup, laufend15-90 min daily
Participantsdifferent
15-1211
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutinePriority Task, Completion Note, Daily Focus
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution
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