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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
A paper-based illustration representing OKRs with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Strategy
OKRs
Paper illustration of Strategy Map with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Strategy Map
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 strategic direction needs to become measurable, it connects ambition with checkable results. It makes goals connectable to focus and review.A Strategy Map translates strategy into a few connected objectives across perspectives such as finance, customers, processes, and learning. This makes visible which capabilities and activities are meant to drive which results.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend1-2 h Setup, laufend1-2 h Setup2-4 h workshop plus review
Participantsdifferent
112-204-10
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineOKR set, Measurement plan, Review cadenceStrategy Map, Objective Set, Cause-Effect Hypotheses
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
GoalsAlignmentOutcomesMeasurement
AlignmentExecutionGoalsCausality
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