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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 Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
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 Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend1-2 h Setup, laufend20-35 min1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
111-5Nutzertraffic
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineTest Card with a pre-set thresholdClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
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