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Criterion
Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Six paper cards show a person moving from a problem through a service flow to a completed outcome.
UX Design
Storyboarding
Paper illustration for Eat the Frog
Operations
Eat the Frog
Paper illustration of a four-quadrant grid with tasks sorted by importance and urgency and translated into actions.
Decision Making
Eisenhower Matrix
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 usage scenario needs to become understandable early, it condenses situations, context, and flow into a legible sequence. It helps check concept ideas before anything gets built.The method protects energy and attention for the task that creates the largest progress and is often postponed.It separates true priorities from noise so it becomes clear what should be done now, scheduled, delegated, or dropped.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend30-90 min15-90 min daily15-30 min
Participantsdifferent
11-811-6
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveStoryboard, Concept Narrative, Testable AssumptionsPriority Task, Completion Note, Daily FocusEisenhower Matrix, Action List, Delegation Notes
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
VisualizationConceptsSequencePrototype
PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution
PrioritizationFocusTasks
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