PARA 4 Implementation

Step One – Read PARA

Step Two – Choose Program (Evernote)

Step Three - Create a Checklist of what to import and save as notes.

Look for:

  • Inspiring
  • Useful
  • Personal
  • Easily Lost

Saves As:

  • Text files (office, google docs, pdfs)
  • Emails
  • Paper docs
  • Manuals/instructions
  • Online articles, blog posts, books
  • Notes from courses, seminars, trainings and conferences
  • Admin files (policies, legal, insurance, financial, procedure records)
  • Journal/Diary
  • Meeting Notes
  • Presentation/Talks
  • Voicemails/Voice Memos
  • Databases and Spreadsheets
  • Internet Bookmarks
  • Photos/Videos/Screenshots
  • Social Media Posts
  • Mindmaps, Diagrams, flowcharts, brainstorms
  • Drawings, sketches
  • Business Cards

In

  • Computer folders
  • Cloud storage
  • Calendar
  • Paper notebooks
  • Various apps
  • Storage bins/folders
  • Desk drawers
  • Iphoto

Step 4 – Collect and Import the items from your checklist

Exceptions:

  • Sensitive info
  • Well defined and easy to find, narrow
  • Special format or file type (photo management, password app)
  • Large file OR needs to be collaborately edited

Methods

  • Evernote Helper
  • Mobile
  • Web clipper
  • Drop on dock
  • Bookcision – kindle notes
  • Email to evernote
  • Scannable (photos of paper pages)
  • IFTTT
  • Zapier – another IFTTT

Step 5 – Put all these new folders in Archive

Step 6 – Review Notebooks and move topics to Resource Stack

Step 7 - Update Project List, Creating a Notebook for Each Active Project

  • Don’t Confuse Areas for Projects
  • Can move individual notes from archive or resource over time

Step 8 – List Areas of Responsibility and Create Notebook for each

  • Trick – each project probably has a corresponding area
  • Areas are the list of standards you use to evaluate your life – more specific, more important and measurable

Step 9 – Replicate these categories over other areas

  • Computer Doc Folder
  • Task Manager