PARA

Category: organization method

Summary: A four-part organization method: projects, areas, resources, and archives.

What it means

PARA organizes information by actionability. projects are active outcomes, areas are ongoing responsibilities, resources are useful topics, and archives are inactive material.

How it shows up in personal knowledge management

PARA helps reduce folder sprawl by asking where information will be used. It connects to tiago-forte, project-knowledge, just-in-time-organization, folder-structure, and weekly-review.

Common mistakes

• Creating too many categories before they are needed.
• Putting everything in resources and never moving material to projects.

Related pages

• tiago-forte
• projects
• areas
• resources
• archives
• project-knowledge
• just-in-time-organization