The P.A.R.A method has been introduced and popularized by Tiago Forte. It is a system to organize information. It is one of my favorite methods because of its simplicity and applicability across operating systems and tools.

Introduction

PARA is an acronym that stands for:

Projects
Areas
Resources
Archives

The PARA method recommends organizing most of your information within these four containers. You can create these everywhere:

In your note-taking tool (this is what the Obsidian Starter Kit does!)
In Notion
In Atlassian Confluence and other Wiki systems
In Google Drive
In Microsoft OneDrive
In your local file system
In your mailbox
In your bookmarks
At work
...

One of the key characteristics of the PARA method is that it pushes you to organize your information based on your projects and goals, rather than based on abstract topics/categories. This makes sense because, as adults, most of our efforts are tied to goals we’re trying to achieve.

Introduction

The “Projects” folder