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Criterion
Paper timeline with three dates, parallel lanes for work, signals and decisions, and labeled links.
Facilitation
Timeline
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration of shared options, independently placed voting dots, and a highlighted shortlist.
Facilitation
Dot Voting
Purposedifferent
When a project, incident, or change process is only remembered in fragments, Timeline brings the sequence back into a readable form. It makes turning points, precursors, and after-effects recognizable over the course of time.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.When a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
30-90 min1-2 h Setup, laufend5-15 min
Participantsdifferent
2-1213-20
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Timeline, Milestones, Insight NotesAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineRanked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
TimelineFacilitationSequence
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization
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Paper illustration for Eat the Frog
Operations
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Paper illustration for Ivy Lee Method
Operations
Ivy Lee Method
Independent contributions form an ordered group priority list.
Facilitation
Nominal Group Technique
Paper illustration for Weekly Review.
Operations
Weekly Review