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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Context Map workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Domain Modeling
Context Map
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 demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all.When several contexts need to talk to each other, it makes their relationships and dependencies legible. It helps sort integration pressure and responsibilities across system boundaries.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend1-5 Tage1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1Nutzertraffic2-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning NoteContext Map, Integration Patterns, Boundary Notes
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
Domain-Driven DesignBoundariesStrategy
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Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
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Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
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Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
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