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PARA Method

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PARA Method

Definition

The PARA method is a system for organizing digital information by actionability rather than subject hierarchy, created by Tiago Forte. The acronym stands for:

  • Projects — short-term efforts with a specific goal and deadline
  • Areas — long-term responsibilities you want to manage over time
  • Resources — topics or interests that may be useful in the future
  • Archive — inactive items from the other three categories

The core insight is that all information can be reduced to these four categories. The system is designed to be so effortless that it liberates focus rather than constraining it — the organizational system must provide time, not consume it.

Key Points

  • Projects are time-bound efforts (e.g., “launch Q3 newsletter”). In an LLM Wiki context, these map to wiki/queries/ — filed answers to specific questions that have a resolution goal.
  • Areas are ongoing domains of responsibility (e.g., “health,” “product development”). In this vault, these map to wiki/entities/ — people, tools, organizations you regularly need to know about.
  • Resources are reference material (e.g., “prompt engineering,” “graph neural networks”). These map to wiki/concepts/ — evergreen idea notes that may be useful across multiple projects.
  • Archive is for inactive items. In this vault, raw sources that have been compiled into the wiki go into the immutable raw/ layer, functioning as the archive.

Implementation patterns

The tvoytour/second-brain-for-claude project implements PARA directly as a folder scaffold with bilingual templates and skill commands (/second-brain new-project, /second-brain archive). The MindStudio approach uses folder-based PARA (Inbox, Notes, People, Projects, Concepts, Briefings, Templates) where an automation pipeline moves items through the lifecycle as status frontmatter transitions from inbox → processed → evergreen. ^[raw/external/github-com-second-brain-for-claude-4c9d7132.md]

  • code-framework — the processing loop that pairs with PARA (Capture, Organize, Distill, Express)
  • second-brain — the system PARA is designed to organize
  • llm-wiki — the LLM Wiki pattern that can automate PARA filing
  • ingest — the LLM Wiki operation that performs PARA-style auto-filing during compilation

Implications

PARA’s strength for LLM-Wiki integration is its simplicity: four categories that map cleanly onto the wiki’s own three-layer architecture (raw → wiki entities/concepts/queries). The vault’s index.md functions as PARA’s “Projects” view — surfacing active areas and reference resources. The key adaptation is that PARA’s “Organize” step (filing by hand) is replaced by the LLM’s ingest operation, which auto-files into the correct wiki section based on content analysis. The Archive is handled by the immutable raw layer.

Sources

^[raw/external/fortelabs-com-basboverview-ee1d6e3d.md] ^[raw/external/github-com-second-brain-for-claude-4c9d7132.md]

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