Second Brain

PARA Method

PARA is how I sort notes by life responsibility - not by topic alphabet soup. Four buckets, clear questions.

Notes rot without review. I calendar weekly and quarterly passes - inbox, projects, evergreens.

PKM is the boring name for how I save, organize, and use what I learn. Here's my unspectacular definition.

RSS is how I research without Twitter. Subscribe to blogs, clip to notes, ignore the rest.

I design for resurfacing - old notes beat systems that only search what I remember to search for.

Collecting quotes isn't PKM for me. Synthesis is merging sources into what I believe and can defend.

Archive isn't delete. It's moving finished work out of active PARA so today's projects breathe.

AI, agents, new apps - PKM hype cycles spin. The future still looks like capture, connect, create, with better search.

A note's value for me lives in what it connects to. Interconnectivity turns files into a network I think inside.

CODE and PARA in one loop: capture to inbox, organize by project, distill on use, express weekly.