Archives

Category: PARA component

Summary: Inactive material preserved for future reference.

What it means

Archives reduce clutter without deleting potentially useful information. A good archive is quiet: it stays out of daily work but remains searchable.

How it shows up in personal knowledge management

Archives connect to para, review-workflow, folder-structure, backup-and-export, and retrieval. Archiving is a maintenance habit, not a failure.

Common mistakes

• Keeping inactive material in active project folders.
• Never reviewing whether information still belongs in the active system.

Related pages

• para
• review-workflow
• folder-structure
• backup-and-export
• retrieval

Mentioned in

• — from Backup and export
• — from Evernote
• — from Folder structure
• — from Maintenance knowledge
• — from Notebooks
• — from PARA
• — from PARA setup guide
• — from PKM setup checklist
• — from Project retrospective
• — from Review workflow
• — from Search
• — from Someday maybe
• — from Weekly review checklist