I've been very resistent to the ‣ system trend, I was able to bypass this until now. What changed? John from egghead just sent an email talking about using the PARA system with Notion. So since everyone is talking about this, I feel like I should at least understand what's it's all about.
So the PARA system comes from a course called **Building a Secound Brain** from **Thiago Forte.**
The course seems amazing but it's U$499 but even the legendary David Allen, reviewed the course. So I've researched a little bit More about Tiago.
It seems that Tiago is a Evernote and Things 3 user. I've watched a interview he made with Keep Productive.
Tiago's goal is to make tasks simple to manage. (That might be the reason he's not using Notion)
Organizing for insight.
PARA aims on being a flexible system for connecting long term efforts into motivating goals
It technically solves the flow between Non-Actionable Information and Actionable Tasks.
Usually projects are tasks with an specific deadline or endpoint much like OmniFocu's projects. Tiago's advice here is to Duplicate your project lists across platforms.
Using all the same labels, reduces the amount of context switching between tools.
Projects should be organized in Priority Order do they reflect your long term goals and values?