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Criterion
Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
Paper illustration of Rapid Ideation with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Rapid Ideation
Paper illustration of the Lotus Blossom working structure.
Innovation
Lotus Blossom
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.Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list.When a decision needs to be prepared quickly, the method generates many solution-close variants in a short time. It deliberately relies on pace to undercut self-censorship and perfectionism. This quickly produces a usable field for prioritization and further work.When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend30-60 min5-20 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
13-101-203-10
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption ListIdeenpool, Roh-Shortlist, ClusterLotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
BrainstormingIdeationDivergenceSpeed
BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop
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