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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
Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
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.Scenario Planning opens the view to several plausible futures instead of a single forecast. The method protects strategies from depending on too narrow an expected path.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend30-90 min0.5-2 Tage1-2 h Setup, laufend
Participantsdifferent
11-84-121
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveStoryboard, Concept Narrative, Testable AssumptionsScenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsAction Lists, Project List, Review Routine
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
VisualizationConceptsSequencePrototype
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
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