To my understanding, PARA is solidly based on a theme that I’ve been developing in previous articles on this site -organizing your digital domain. Archive - “inactive items from the other three categories.”.Resources- “a topic or theme of ongoing interest.”.Areas- “a sphere of activity with a standard to be maintained over time.”.Projects- “a series of tasks linked to a goal, with a deadline”.Their purposes are relatively simple, as he describes them: PARA stands for Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archive.

PARA is a concept developed by Tiago Forte, author of the book ‘Building a Second Brain’. Today, we explore one such system: the PARA method. But there are a lot of smart and thoughtful people out there who have spent their time designing different structures for these wild insanities we call our lives. The systemĬontrary to what you might think or hear, there is no “one size fits all” approach to organizing your life and approaching your day-to-day activities. A new method for organizing your files, and the new philosophy it’s based on. So that’s what we’re going to talk about today. You should apply the same mentality to your work and the way that you carry it out. As he says, “30 dollars to get one idea that could propel me…it was a bargain.” He described growing up and loving to walk through bookstores, picking up anything that caught his eye. And if I found one needle in that haystack of apps, it would have been worth it.īillionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban took this a step further. Pages and pages of apps, some of them dumb, and most of them total flops. When our phones began to feature App Stores with millions of apps that purported to improve lives- for free-I went absolutely wild with downloading. And if a hot new life hack lands and takes the town by storm, why not try it? From time to time we should look at our systems and tools and evaluate them for just how well they are serving us in our work.

The conscious and active pursuit of a productive and healthy life invariably includes reflection, self-examination, and experimentation.

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