Entrepreneurs yesterday we talked about the quick capture method to capture all the information, all of the thoughts, all of the web clippings, whatever the case may be so today I want to dive into the paramethod in organizing all of that information and this comes from Tony Forte’s book The Paramethod which pairs well with his other book building a Second Brain so para is simply projects, areas, resources and archive now this is something that I use in my browser on my phone to store information I use that in Samsung notes with the folders obviously my second brain everywhere that I have information it’s organized in those four folders so we’ll talk about projects first now projects is something you have to do right away it’s something that has a start date and an end date and that’s it a project, a task that’ll go into the projects folder the second is areas now this is something that is an ongoing task, an ongoing project that doesn’t have an end date so that could be something like your taxes that could be something like housing your um social media websites in your web browser that’s under my areas tab in my bookmark bar so something that’s ongoing or if you’re a freelancer like I am and you have ongoing client work that doesn’t have an end date that’ll go into my areas folder. Now the next is resources this is something that like a web clipping, a Blog post, something that you want to capture and recall easily, but it’s not something you’re going to look at every day. It’s not something you that that has an end date, but you may need to refer to it so that’ll go into your resources. Archive is pretty self explanatory. That’s where you’re going to archive all the information that you don’t need now. You might want that later down the line, say a year, maybe even a couple months, but something you don’t need now. For anybody that’s just starting out, if you’re trying to organize your laptop, for example, and you want to start using this method, something that unless it’s a project that you need right away, dump all of your files into an archive folder and you can access that and organize it as you go. It doesn’t have to take you days or hours of organizing all these files. You can organize new things as they come in using that system but it’s easy. Just dump everything into an archive folder and you’re ready to go right on the spot. How cool is that?