DATA - Not PARA

I took PARA (Projects, Areas, Research, Archive) and morphed it to fit my own paradigm.

Projects: I found tagging a note as a project was preferable, as it could still belong in it's appropriate Area of my life.
Research: Similar to my project solution, I found that I would rather have the info I have collected/created locate-able in it's correct area.
- Additionally, I found that my Digital Brain is better off not holding copies of things I can find by a quick internet search, but instead the things I have learned from those sources (see Ideas, Atoms, Molecules, & Alloys).

I instead have DATA, or Daily Notes, Areas, Tasks, and Archive.

The acronym is much more fun, and this organisation scheme seems to work better with the way my brain works.

A place to jot down your daily notes, journal, the rough thoughts off the top of your head as you need to write them down in order to sort them for later (see Tasks below).
- If I want to create a to do task specifically, I will make it as a checkbox and the Tasks note will add that to the list automatically (using the Tasks Obsidian plugin).
Creating a Daily Note and jotting stuff down in it is effectively like putting notes into the Inbox of Zettelkasten.

Areas are created as folders for visual navigation.
I use the Folder Notes Obsidian Plugin as well as an Area template to denote each Area specifically and to automatically create an Index/Map of Content (via the Waypoint Obsidian Plugin) that links the notes within their folders to their respective Area.
Various Areas are also linked as they are related to each other.

This is actually a specialised note (using the Tasks and Dataviews Obsidian Plugins) that acts as the sorting and prioritisation location like the Inbox of Zettelkasten.
It collects all tasks, sorting them via priority, then scheduled date, as well as collecting all my Daily Notes that I have not yet marked with the Processed tag.