Using the PARA method with Notion - Notion Mastery
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Abstraction: Adapting Tiago Forte's PARA framework to Notion's database model
Key points:
- PARA: Projects (goals with deadlines), Areas (standards to maintain over time), Resources (future-useful topics), Archives (inactive items)
- Notion's linked databases require PARA adaptation — data doesn't live in a single folder, and moving pages between databases loses relational metadata
- Critical Notion limitation: database access is all-or-nothing; partial sharing requires manually restricting every page, making personal/team data separation difficult
- Marie Poulin's key adaptations: Archives = a Status property on the Projects database (not a separate page); Resources = team knowledge base of linked databases (Library, Notes + Ideas, Topics + Tags)
- Departments database replaces "Areas" for team work context; personal Areas remain private dashboard pages
- "PARA is most useful in Notion if you don't interpret it literally" — use it as flexible starting point
Connections: Notion · Tiago Forte · Personal Knowledge Management · Para Method · Productivity Systems
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