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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper illustration of GIST Planning with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
GIST Planning
A paper-based illustration representing Domain Storytelling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Domain Storytelling
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.GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list.Domain Storytelling translates domain knowledge into a shared narrative of actors, objects, and workflows. It is especially useful when language, rules, and process understanding must be tightly connected.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufendWochen bis Monate je Goal1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
13-102-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveGoals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reportsDomain Story, Glossary Notes, Process Narrative
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments
KnowledgeDomain-Driven DesignProcess
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Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree