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While it’s very tempting to dive into the “productivity and note taking space” it’s all largely rehashing the same ideas. PARA is a rehash of GTD getting thing
by kingkongjaffa 3y ago
While it’s very tempting to dive into the “productivity and note taking space” it’s all largely rehashing the same ideas.
PARA is a rehash of GTD getting things done imo with a few obfuscating steps.
Virtually everything in this space falls into stuff ripped off from GTD, or Thinking Fast and Slow concepts and romanticising mental models, or Bullet Journal, or Zettlekasten.
- adolph 3y agoI think Forte does a reasonable job of acknowledging Allen. Is GTD the gold standard for all times? Or do people of different times need different explanations of something that addresses similar problems?
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- dimal 3y agoEh, it’s more than GTD. I actually paid for his course. Crazy, but it was worth it. GTD is about getting things done. PARA is about how to manage to torrent of informational content we’re bombarded with and make it useful… to get things done. I don’t use PARA anymore, but his process did help me get my personal information under control until I figured out a (similar) system that fits my brain better. With plain GTD, I was always swamped with information.
- kingkongjaffa 3y agoMaybe I find Tiago specifically distasteful because he’s repackaged GTD as PARA and repackaged Zettlekasten as his “building a second brain” work.
- dimal 3y agoLike I said, it kind of builds on GTD, but it is not GTD. I would call GTD about 10% of it. And it is a completely different methodology than zettelkasten. He is very much about hierarchical organization — not the free-linking world of zettelkasten. PARA and zettelkasten are really at opposite extremes of organization. So it’s not a repackaging of either. It’s a different thing.