Post-PARA: What survived 4 years of real use

[Tomte]

It reads a bit like my current position after two decades of on-and-off-GTD and ~three years of PARA: the project/area/resource distinction is practical, but not earth-shattering.

But what‘s really working is GTD, which the article doesn‘t call out, but implicitly lumps together with PARA: actionable next tasks and collecting everything in some kind of inbox.

I haven‘t found much use for PARA itself in my personal life, but for organizing my work OneDrive it shines.

[kstrauser]

For organization, I found that Johnny Decimal is my perfect sweet spot.

Seconded on GTD, or at least a version of it. I suck at consulting an app about what I could be doing in a given context. I’ve mostly discarded that, other than things like shopping lists and 1:1 meetings. But the idea of capturing every action I need to take, then routinely putting those in home/work/self/etc. buckets was life changing. I’m a devotee to that habit.

[wiradikusuma]

First time hearing PARA, how does it compare to GTD? (Not looking for generic answer, but from experience as typical HN crowd)

[cortwave]

PARA is more about data organization (it doesn't have concept of tasks originally) GTD is oriented on specifically on tasks