# PARA Method Created On: 01-04-2023 07:59 am Up:: [[My Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) (MOC)]] Tags:: #note/evergreen🌲 Topics:: [[Second Brain]] Related:: [[Zettelkasten]] --- Derived from [[Building a Second Brain (Book)]], PARA stands for: * **Projects** - These are time-bound and specific initiatives. This space is used to enable action ability on these topics. These have deadlines or tangible goals or outcomes to be achieved. * **Areas** - Typically areas of interest in our life. These do not often have timelines associated with them and generally reflect buckets of our primary interests. * **Resources** - General information that more broadly supports areas and projects. * **Archive** - An area to deprecate information from the above three containers. It is retained, but removed from your immediate purview to reduce cognitive burden. It serves as a structured form to make access information easier. An important note, **PARA is built to enable actions or outcomes, not action-less thinking**. More information on the topic can be found directly from [Forte Labs](https://fortelabs.com/blog/para/). ![[PARA Breakdown.png]] ![[PARA - Projects vs Areas.png]]