How I'm using the PARA Method in Twos and elsewhere

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Projects

Areas

Resources

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This includes what I'm currently working on or something that's imminently in the pipeline.

In Twos, I include my work and personal projects, my husband's business, the house, the garden. Each project is created as a list. Each list may have sublists.

When I started this new contract last year, I was inundated with emails. Anything that seemed like it was significant became a folder. There was little logic. I tried to file everything so that I could find it later. Now that I appreciate the importance - or not - or different information, it was easy to categorise emails and folders using the PARA method. Everything is much easier to find and my logic is fairly consistent.

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I see these as areas of responsibility. These include being a manager, a wife, a home owner, responsible for finances. Again, these are all lists.

Many of my public lists are found in this section. This area is a resource for lists. My watch list, listen list, read list plus many others.

At work, resources are third party contacts, networks, information.

I think Tiago says that if an item goes into the archive, do you really need it? This section might contain old, completed projects that might come in handy some day. I have a couple of things that I don't refer to very often - a log of dates and room numbers for stays at our favourite hotel, and how to do symlinks.

When I first read about PARA, I wasn't sure what difference it might make to me. But, having tried it out and set up all my lists and folders this way, I can see the benefit. I can go straight to the information I want. I know where everything is.

PARA works brilliantly in Obsidian. It lends itself to note keeping.

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