Tiago Forte

Productivity expert, founder of Forte Labs

Productivity expert who created PARA and the Building a Second Brain method, the filing scheme and the idea behind this site's knowledge side

Why I Follow

PARA is how this site files what it keeps, and a second brain is what the site is. Where David Allen's GTD handles what you have to do, Forte's work handles what you know.

Key Ideas

Organize by actionability, not by topic — Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives, sorted by how soon you will act on them
CODE — capture, organize, distill, express: notes are for making something, not for hoarding
Progressive summarization — distill a note a layer at a time, as it proves useful
Intermediate packets — ship small reusable pieces rather than waiting on the finished whole

When I Reference

Deciding where a note or resource belongs
Moving finished projects to the archive
Turning collected notes into something published