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Criterion
Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
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.When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together.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.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend45-90 min1-2 h Setup, laufend60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
14-1214-10
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchivePerspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
FacilitationOptionsDecision
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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