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Criterion
Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper illustration of Hooked Model with its method-specific working model.
Growth
Hooked Model
A paper-based illustration representing North Star Metric with its core stages and visible working result.
Growth
North Star Metric
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.The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design.When product teams track many metrics, the view of the actual customer outcome easily gets lost. A North Star Metric bundles growth, usage, and value contribution into one signal that makes the system's direction visible.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufendMultiple workshops over several weeks1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
12-83-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveHooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics checkNorth Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
GrowthBehaviorRetention
GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention
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Paper illustration of Goal Question Metric with its method-specific working model.
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Paper illustration of KPI Tree with its method-specific working model.
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KPI Tree
Paper illustration of the McKinsey 7S Framework with seven connected fields
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