Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

Areas: What I’m Committed to Over Time

they have a beginning and an end;

Projects: What I’m Working on Right Now

How PARA Works: Priming Your Mind (and Notes) for Action

The intention here is not to use a single software program, but to use a single organizing system

Instead of having to sort your notes according to a complex hierarchy of topics and subtopics, you have to answer only one simple question: “In which project will this be most useful?” It

organizes information based on how actionable it is, not what kind of information it is.

organize and retrieve them only leads to more overwhelm.

Capturing notes without an effective way to