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I’m in the midst of creating a second brain system for Notion, and while planning my dashboard I realized that I never created content about a holistic productivity system. This week I plan to make a video about my system and all it entails. It closely resembles the P.A.R.A system and second brain from Tiago Forte.
My goals for the system is to marry my content creation calendar and various notes into one procedure. Here is a graph I drew to help me build the system.
New video and blank template this weekend!
Homepage
A page to file through my directory of which has pages for Areas, Action, Assets, Archive, and Allotment. These hubs closely align to the PARA system (Project, Area, Resources, Archive).
Recurring Tasks: A separate database nested inside corresponding areas to separate tasks I don’t want to make a new entry for repeatedly.
In-Active Resources: Resources, or documents saved from the web, that aren’t connected to an existing project are considered in-active. I want to have portal to quickly add a new note in my homepage.
Active Tasks: I have a portal to read all tasks that yet to be completed and are currently attached to a project .
Areas
This image represents a single Area in my second brain, or a broad tag. Ex. Ancestry Research, Health, or Travel would be a broad area.
Recurring Tasks: Quick add recurring tasks that relate to the area. Ex. In Health > Run 3 miles every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Projects: Of course, all projects and tasks associated with an area will go here.
Resources: Here will be all relevant resources attached to the area OR attached to a project in said area.
Archive: In-active resources and projects associated with the area will populate inside a hidden toggle.
Action
Similar to the PARA system’s project section, this page records all projects and tasks that are actionable. All relevant resources attached to the corresponding project go here. As well, all similar projects, or in other words, projects in the same Area.
Tasks: Every project will have tasks associated to break down the project into manageable bits. Ex. In project Research family up to 1850, a task would be Find best way to read census records.
Assets
All resources, or clipped articles from the web mostly and miscellaneous notes, go here. A resource can fall into three categories: Active (attached to a project), In-Active (not attached to a project), and Shareable (resources I want to share).
Archive
All archived pages from other sections in the directory. I want this page to hold archived Areas, Projects, and In-Active Resources.
Allotment
There is an important step in this workflow for sharing ideas, content and resources. I want to be able to quickly toggle a To Share checkbox to send a page to the allotment portal. And upon sharing the knowledge, filing away into a Shared database view.
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