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       The Para Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital
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       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2023-02-08 16:29 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | v8xi wrote:
       | I've been trying out this organizational method for about 2
       | months now. tl;dr - everything falls into a
       | Project.Area.Resource.Archive (sub)folder and the ideal is to
       | rotate things through as soon as they're finished to Archives
       | where you can ~forget about them. What I appreciate about it is
       | how its recursive, so you can organize individual projects
       | according to the PARA rules.
       | 
       | I agree with the author that its difficult to decide between
       | Areas and Projects and appreciate his take that all Projects
       | belong to an Area - insightful. One of the changes I've made to
       | the system is to refer to Resources instead as Records. I like to
       | take daily notes and keep to-do lists, summarize/link articles
       | etc which usually have some type of temporal resolution and may
       | not always fit in a specific project/area. So far I like it
       | better than my old method of categorizing things by date and type
       | and it meshes well with my fairly simple Obsidian environment.
        
         | patleeman wrote:
         | I had similar challenges as well with the
         | Archive/Resources/Areas. I didn't like the extra mental
         | overhead to determine if something was categorized a certain
         | way.
         | 
         | I ended up combining Archive/Resources/Areas into a Knowledge
         | folder and then using the root folder to hold everything else.
         | 
         | If anyone is interested, I wrote about my simple system here:
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         | https://patricklee.nyc/blog/how-i-use-obsidian/
        
       | mif wrote:
       | This post is 6 years old (on this day), so why do I read about
       | this now?
       | 
       | What makes sense to me is
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       | 1) the connection between actionable/non-actionable and
       | motivation. For example, I'm struggling to see the progress in my
       | career. Now looking back at a few occasions it's when I acted
       | that things were changing (update resume, apply for a job).
       | 
       | 2) how information flows between "projects" - "areas" -
       | "resources" - "archives". I have always been struggling to
       | organize my notes. I find "bullet journal" too strict and time-
       | consuming. Tiago invites me to spend less time,
       | opportunistically, organizing notes.
       | 
       | 3) that the P.A.R.A system is intrinsically dynamic and follows a
       | logic how knowledge is generated. But at the same time
       | acknowledging that your goals change over time.
        
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