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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
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.In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend20–45 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1Small cross-functional group1-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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Paper illustration of an IBIS map with issues, positions and arguments
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