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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 for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
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.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 makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.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, laufend1-2 h Setup, laufend60-120 min15-90 min daily
Participantsdifferent
112-81
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineConflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next ExperimentsPriority Task, Completion Note, Daily Focus
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking
PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution
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