Introduction

Welcome to the PARA Kit template!

whether you are using it to build your personal or your business second brain, this tutorial will help you building your workspace according to your life / business goals. for simplicity, in this guide I will refer as if it is for your business.

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If you’re asking yourself what is a second brain or what is PARA method?

you can find a comprehensive guide right here:

• Get started with what is a second brain and the PARA method→Building Your Second Brain in Notion

• Get started with goal setting by defining your OKRs→Align Your Goals & Execution in Notion: The Simple OKR Guide for Solo Founders 🎯 </aside>

• just as a quick reminder, PARA stands for:

The approach behind this Second Brain

we always want to work toward our goals and make sure we are moving the needle in the right direction. this is why we should always start with our vision and goals and define what are we actually trying to achieve. We also want to make sure we keep our goals close to us as our compass — this way we can make sure we are getting progress.

Your Dashboards

• Home Page — main dashboard of your system / business Demo: The PARA Kit
• Manage your core databases and views:
  • Projects & Tasks Projects & Tasks
  • Objective & Key Results Objectives & Key Results
  • Areas
  • Resources
• Specific Project Page — each project page is a whole dashboard for that project (check the project templates)
• Specific Area Page — each area page is a whole dashboard for that area (check the area template)
• The Archive — Archive

Core databases

According to the PARA definition we will have 3 databases (Projects, Areas, Resources) and an archive —which is not a database but a page or consider it as a dashboard with all of your finished items from the other databases. Your main views and dashboards configured to hide finished and archived items, so you can always focus on your active items. you can easily find them back in your archive or with a simple search inside Notion (cmd+k).