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Criterion
Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption 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.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.When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend1-2 h Setup, laufend45-60 min
Participantsdifferent
112-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineAssumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation
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Paper illustration of Riskiest Assumption Test with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Riskiest Assumption Test
Paper illustration for Weekly Review.
Operations
Weekly Review
Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method