The PARA Method
Short guide to sorting every file and note into four folders
Shorter and more practical than the book before it. One system, and nothing beyond it: Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives, set up across a notes app, a cloud drive and the file system on your computer in a single sitting. Most of the pages go to worked examples and to the questions people ask when their existing mess will not fit four boxes. It reads in about an hour.
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- Tiago ForteRecommends
Productivity writer · Building a Second Brain
Shorter follow-up, also his, covering the four folders and nothing more. Its page pitches getting the system up across computer files, cloud storage and a notes app in seconds, and makes a point of saying the setup does not have to be perfect to be worth having.
Source: buildingasecondbrain.com: The PARA Method
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