PARA is designed for a folders and files approach to note taking, where a file can only be in one folder at a time.
With Supernotes, we’re not restricted to that way of thinking, and I’d advise against artificially restricting your system in the same way.
In my Input
, Insights
, and Output
based approach to top-level notes, an individual atomic note can appear in all three top-level branches of my notes tree. For example, if I read an insight in a book then I’d track that via a parent link to the Insights
note for that book under the Input
branch. But the same note would also appear under one, or more, relevant topics under the top-level Insights
note (e.g. Habits
and Psychology
). Plus, the same note could also appear under Output
, if I’ve used it in a published piece of work.
This approach makes it easy to see where an idea came from, which topics it’s related to, and if I’ve already written/spoken about it. As far as I’m aware, PARA’s “single parent/folder” approach doesn’t let you do that.