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Criterion
Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
A paper-based illustration representing WSJF with its core stages and visible working result.
Agile
WSJF
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration for Eat the Frog
Operations
Eat the Frog
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 many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable 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.The method protects energy and attention for the task that creates the largest progress and is often postponed.
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Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend45-90 min1-2 h Setup, laufend15-90 min daily
Participantsdifferent
13-1011
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveRanked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay AssumptionsAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutinePriority Task, Completion Note, Daily Focus
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution
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