# Thoughts on P.A.R.A contrasted to J.D **URL:** \ **Category:** The Johnny.Decimal system\ **Created:** [November 3, 2023, 12:49pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/thoughts-on-p-a-r-a-contrasted-to-j-d/1001 "2023-11-03T12:49:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
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This was super useful, thanks. When I look at PARA I’ll confess that my main thought is … _is that it?_ It tells you to use four folders and then … what, the usual chaos? And so to be honest I haven’t really read much in to it. But hey! The wonder of life is that we’re all different and that there are all of these different ideas to choose from. 😃 * * * Some more thoughts… What others including PARA might call ‘a project’ I think should usually just be an ID. It’s a _task,_ really. I go in to this in the workbook: I think ‘paint the kitchen’ is just a JD ID. No way that’s a ‘project’ in my world. A ‘project’ is closer to ‘rebuild the house’, and even then I’d squeeze that in to an area. (I’m in the middle of re-writing the first few pages of the site and the new `11.03 IDs` will expand on this view of ‘what is an ID’.) As far as archiving, I generally don’t see the need. The incremental nature of JD IDs means that older things naturally just fall away. Leave them there: there’s no need to ‘tidy up’. PARAs ‘areas’ are closest aligned to my areas I guess? And ‘resources’ are also just IDs in my world. Perhaps part of a larger thing, perhaps their own thing. But contained within a category, otherwise _what is the thing about?_ --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/thoughts-on-p-a-r-a-contrasted-to-j-d/1001)._