[HN Gopher] Post-PARA: What survived 4 years of real use
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       Post-PARA: What survived 4 years of real use
        
       Author : cortwave
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2026-01-12 13:30 UTC (5 days ago)
        
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       | Tomte wrote:
       | It reads a bit like my current position after two decades of on-
       | and-off-GTD and ~three years of PARA: the project/area/resource
       | distinction is practical, but not earth-shattering.
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       | But what's really working is GTD, which the article doesn't call
       | out, but implicitly lumps together with PARA: actionable next
       | tasks and collecting everything in some kind of inbox.
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       | I haven't found much use for PARA itself in my personal life, but
       | for organizing my work OneDrive it shines.
        
         | kstrauser wrote:
         | For organization, I found that Johnny Decimal is my perfect
         | sweet spot.
         | 
         | Seconded on GTD, or at least a version of it. I suck at
         | consulting an app about what I could be doing in a given
         | context. I've mostly discarded that, other than things like
         | shopping lists and 1:1 meetings. But the idea of capturing
         | every action I need to take, then routinely putting those in
         | home/work/self/etc. buckets was life changing. I'm a devotee to
         | that habit.
        
           | jen729w wrote:
           | Johnny here. Glad you find it useful.
           | 
           | Have you seen my recent 'task and project management' course?
           | I'm _really_ happy with how the task part worked out, and
           | feedback has been universally positive.
           | 
           | The project side has work to do. I think I've solved the
           | problem and will be updating the course in the next month.
        
       | wiradikusuma wrote:
       | First time hearing PARA, how does it compare to GTD? (Not looking
       | for generic answer, but from experience as typical HN crowd)
        
         | cortwave wrote:
         | PARA is more about data organization (it doesn't have concept
         | of tasks originally) GTD is oriented on specifically on tasks
        
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