# Productivity
All Productivity notes →PARA Method
Organizing a second brain by actionability — Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives — instead of by topic, so structure doesn't need to be redecided constantly.
Second Brain
Externalizing capture and organization into a trusted system so working memory is freed for actual thinking.
Atomic Notes
One idea per note, written to stand alone — the unit a Zettelkasten actually links, not a folder-nested outline.
Evergreen Notes
A note that keeps getting rewritten and refined as understanding grows, instead of staying a dated log entry frozen at capture time.
Zettelkasten
A densely linked slip-box of notes where structure and new ideas emerge from the network of connections instead of being decided upfront.
3 — Progressive Summarization
Layering highlights and bolding over multiple passes so a note's most useful parts surface without re-reading the whole thing.
Building Knowledge Graphs
Turning atomic notes into a retrievable network through deliberate cross-linking — the same [[wikilink]] and backlink mechanics this wiki runs on.
Knowledge Retrieval
A note that can't be found when needed has the same value as a note that was never written — search, tags, and links as the retrieval layer.
5 — Reviewing Knowledge
A deliberate resurfacing cadence for captured notes, separate from spaced repetition of facts, that keeps a growing knowledge base connected instead of write-only.