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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Rich Picture workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Rich Picture
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
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.A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early.A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend30-90 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
12-103-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveRich Picture, Problem Framing NotesFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
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Paper illustration for Intervention Mapping.
Systems Thinking
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Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
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