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You create top-level folders or nodes for each topics and collect the stuff you like in them. In original PARA, Resources are organized very similarly to other categories. Resources are used to collect ideas on specific topics you’re merely interested in, ranging from product management to business strategy to gardening. Meaning you can choose the areas you want to review every time you go here versus everything else. The second can be a collection of health-related tips and links generally.Ī great added advantage of Workflowy is the ability to expand and collapse nodes and their content.

The first is about your own health: records, notes from doctors, workout program. You can have an area called “Health” and a resource called “Health”. Sometimes specific items can turn into projects.Īreas are personal, it’s something about you specifically.

Core work responsibilities, relationships with your partners and parents, travel ideas you have in mind. The whole point of Areas is to documents some parts of your life you’re responsible for. In fact, I use exactly these tags throughout my setup: and Areas With Workflowy you can also mark the tasks you’re planning to work on right now or focus more. Ideally, you’d commit by putting a date here but I’m too focused on my primary job (where we use a team management service) so I’m allowing myself a bit more freedom here. I have a dedicated Projects node that includes all big things I’m working on now or planning to work in the near future. You can adjust it as you go and my work has very different needs vs my writing compared to the core workflow. Some of these nodes aren’t parts of PARA and that’s OK. Here’s a screenshot of my home page in Workflowy.

Examples include: projects that have been completed or become inactive areas that you are no longer committed to maintaining resources that you are no longer interested inīy the way, if you’re not familiar with Workflowy you can read some overview of the concept and a more detailed guide here.

Examples include: habit formation project management transhumanism coffee music gardening online marketing SEO interior design architecture note-takingĪrchives include “inactive items from the other three categories.”.

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Examples include: Health Finances, Professional Development Travel Hobbies Friends Apartment Car Productivity Direct reports Product Development WritingĪ resource is “a topic or theme of ongoing interest.”.Examples include: Complete app mockup Develop project plan Execute business development campaign Write blog post Finalize product specifications Attend conferenceĪn area of responsibility is “a sphere of activity with a standard to be maintained over time.”.

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stands for Projects - Areas - Resources - Archives, the four top-level categories that encompass every type of information you might encounter in your work and life.Ī project is “a series of tasks linked to a goal, with a deadline.” Instead I suggest that you find one text-based app for all that knowledge. You wouldn’t be able to remember why the hell you saved that article, and even if there are highlights it’s hard to extract them. You have to process it through yourself and ideally save in some open system that makes it easy to resurface. What I realized is that just saving content isn’t enough. For instance, for the longest time I’ve been using read-later apps like Pocket and Instapaper and bookmarks managers like Raindrop. I’m not like that and have always been using various apps and tools to offload the tasks and knowledge to extend my brain’s capabilities. They have innate drive and perfect memory that they can utilize. Some people are perfectly capable of moving forward without writing structured notes.

It’s very flexible and can be recreated in any app, whether it’s Evernote, Roam Research, Notion, Bear, or Workflowy where I built it.

It incentivizes documenting and going over various areas of your life to ensure you move forward.

It creates strong distinctions between actionable projects with deadlines and more general things you might have.

But as I was changing various tools, recently I realized that what I build for myself in Workflowy very closely resembles it and decided to complete the move. When I first learned about it seemed way to specific for me to implement. PARA is a methodology developed by Tiago Forte, a revered productivity expert. About Me Subscribe y_molodtsov The PARA Method in Workflowy COO and Partner MA Family where we run communications for tech startups and VC firms.