# Customizing the standard zeros

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**Created:** [March 7, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/customizing-the-standard-zeros/2160 "2025-03-07T20:56:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/customizing-the-standard-zeros/2160/3 "2025-03-10T22:14:49Z")

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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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