Customizing the standard zeros

Thanks @LAdams — it’s helpful to know how you’ve approached this. I agree that templates is necessary pretty much everywhere. In the approach I shared, I’d have a folder for templates in .08 Resources: .08 Resources/Templates/. Understandable why you put your backburner at the end of the folder sequence — nice place for it.

I also agree that PARA is a bit too generic. But I actually like the idea of a resources folder. I’m currently reading “The Personal Efficiency Program” (2008; 4th ed.) by K. Gleeson, and the organization system described therein includes three major sections: “Working”, “Reference”, and “Archive”. “Reference” reminds me of “Resources” in PARA. I suspect “Areas” in PARA is an attempt to adapt the mostly white-collar work approach described in Gleeson to a broader personal organization system including life outside work. Regardless, the Working/Reference/Archive paradigm seems fairly “standard”.

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