Imagine for a moment the perfect organizational system. One that supported and enhanced the work you do, telling you exactly where to put a piece of information, and exactly where to find it when you needed it. This system would have to be: universal, encompassing any conceivable kind of information from any source flexible, able
Last month I published The P.A.R.A. Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information. It describes a simple, lightweight, yet extremely flexible system for organizing any type of digital information across any platform. The feedback I’ve gotten has been so phenomenal, I’ve made implementing P.A.R.A. the first unit of my upcoming online bootcamp, Building a
What if you could push a button and immediately be given an idea? Not just any idea. A good idea. An idea relevant to your interests, your goals, and your current projects. What if every time you pushed this button, you also made it more likely that even better ideas would be surfaced in the
This article is a guide for getting started with PARA, an organizational system for your digital life. Here’s the 5-step process I recommend you follow: Step 1: Move existing files to a new folder called “Archive [date]” (with today’s date) Step 2: Create folders for each of your current projects Step 3: Move all the
PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 | PART 4 | PART 5 A version of this article was originally published on the Evernote blog In Part 1 I argued that the Project List was the lynchpin of not only P.A.R.A. and your broader PKM (personal knowledge management) system, but to your entire working
In P.A.R.A Part I, I argued that the Project List was the lynchpin of modern productivity, serving as a dashboard of your current commitments and the bridge between actionable and reference systems. But formulating a Project List is also one of the most difficult exercises for most people to complete. And I’m not the only