How to Build a Personal Knowledge Management Notion and the PARA method

PARA is a knowledge management method. PARA stands for the Project, the Area (of interests), the Resource, and the Archive. A project comprises a series of tasks, has to complete with a limited time, and links to one or multiple areas of interest. An area (of interest) establishes the meaning of a project called a goal or scope of demands. A resource is an idea, a topic, or a theme of interest. An archive is used to mark inactive items.
We can implement the PARA method to build our personal knowledge management system in Notion. In our example project, we created the five databases:

• Mission (→ Area) lists the envied achievements. When people use goals to describe the same concept, defining missions is called a goal-setting process or creating a goal chart.
• Project (→ Project) contains a list of tasks to achieve a mission within a limited time. Note that we have to set both the Start Date and Due Date for each project.
• Task tracks the detailed actions in a project which requires Start Date and Due Date property**.**
• Notes (→ Resources) captures resources.
• Tag tracks topics or themes of interest.

In each project, task and note, we add an "Archive" property to mark inactiveness.
The primary benefit of the PARA method is introducing the structure of a knowledge management system, with a hierarchal relationship is between the actionable elements, including missions, projects, and tasks, and a correlation relationship between notes and other components. PARA also introduces the archiving workflow to differentiate active vs. inactive content, creating spotlights in the knowledge management system for better focus.